PORT ELIZABETH, a seaport-town of Cape Colony, South Africa, on the W. shore of Algoa Bay, 18 miles S.E. of Uitenhage. It contains churches belonging to Episcopalians, Wesleyans, Independents, and Roman Catholics; an arsenal, court-house, and jail. There is a harbour, which is, next to Cape Town, the most frequented in the colony, and a pier projecting 350 feet into the sea. The commerce of Port Elizabeth is great, and rapidly increasing. The number of ships that entered the harbour in 1855 was 163, tonnage 26,914; those that cleared 160, tonnage 26,045. The total value of the imports in the same year was L.376,638, and that of the exports L.584,447. Pop. upwards of 4000.