Port Harcourt is the capital city of Rivers State, Nigeria. It lies along the Bonny River and is located in the Niger Delta.

Port Harcourt has long been an important merchant port and is today the center of Nigeria’s oil industry. Port Harcourt is one of Nigeria's leading industrial centres. The Trans-Amadi Industrial Estate, 4 miles (6 km) north, is a 2,500-acre (1,000-hectare) site where Oil and gas tools, tires, aluminum products, glass bottles, and paper are manufactured.
The town also manufactures cigarettes, steel structural products, corrugated tin, paints, plastics, enamelware, wood and metal furniture, cement, concrete products, and several other goods, and it has truck and bicycle assembly plants. Nigeria's first oil refinery (1965) is at Alesa-Eleme, 12 miles (19 km) southeast. Pipelines carry oil and natural gas to Port Harcourt (where there also is a refinery) and to the port of Bonny, 25 miles (40 km) south-southeast, and refined oil to Makurdi in Benue state. Port Harcourt is the site of traditional boatbuilding and fishing industries and has fish-freezing facilities. (Ref. Encyclopædia).

Besides being an industrial city, Port Harcourt is also a tourist destination. Port Harcourt is a city with rich cultural heritage. Her green vegitation, has earned her the name "Garden City'