Port Harcourt (nga)

Port Harcourt

Port Harcourt ranks 1,460th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Phnom Penh, Bad Arolsen, and Westchester County, New York. The most famous people from Port Harcourt are Taribo West, Finidi George, and Burna Boy. The most famous people who died in Port Harcourt are Ken Saro-Wiwa. Port Harcourt has been the birth place of many soccer players, and actors and the death place of many social activists. Port Harcourt is located in Nigeria.

Port Harcourt is the capital and largest city of Rivers State in Nigeria. It is the fifth most populous city in Nigeria after Lagos, Kano, Ibadan and Benin. It lies along the Bonny River and is located in the oil rich Niger Delta region. As of 2023, Port Harcourt's urban population is approximately 3,480,000. The population of the metropolitan area of Port Harcourt is almost twice its urban area population with a 2015 United Nations estimate of 2,344,000. In 1950, the population of Port Harcourt was 59,752. Port Harcourt has grown by 150,844 since 2015, which represents a 4.99% annual change. Read more on Wikipedia