Head to head
Almaty vs Bishkek
Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Almaty is the larger of the two, with 1,977,011 people to 900,000 in Bishkek. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Everything below is the evidence for that: population, size within each city’s own country, the distance between them, and where each one stands on the global board.
The answer
SummaryNeither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Almaty is the larger of the two, with 1,977,011 people to 900,000 in Bishkek. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Almaty nor Bishkek has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
Two countries| Metric | Almaty | Bishkek |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 1,977,011 | 900,000 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 1st largest | 1st largest |
| Country | Kazakhstan | Kyrgyzstan |
| Region | Almaty | Bishkek |
| National capital | No | Yes |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 3:57 AM · UTC+05:00 | 4:57 AM · UTC+06:00 |
| CityWar rank | Unclaimed | Unclaimed |
| City score$1 contributed = 1 point | $0 | $0 |
| Backers | 0 | 0 |
| Score added todaysince 00:00 UTC | $0 | $0 |
Distance and time
193 km apartAlmaty and Bishkek are 193 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Almaty is in Kazakhstan; Bishkek is in Kyrgyzstan. Bishkek keeps time 1 hour ahead of Almaty.
Almaty has 1,077,011 more people — 2.2× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Almaty or Bishkek?
- Almaty is the larger city by population, with 1,977,011 people to 900,000 in Bishkek — a difference of 1,077,011. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Almaty and Bishkek?
- 193 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Almaty is in Kazakhstan and Bishkek is in Kyrgyzstan. Bishkek keeps time 1 hour ahead of Almaty.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Almaty or Bishkek?
- Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Almaty is the larger of the two, with 1,977,011 people to 900,000 in Bishkek. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
- How is a city's CityWar score calculated?
- One US dollar contributed is one point, and cities are ordered by total score with the highest first. When two cities are level the one backed first holds the higher rank. Nothing else is in the calculation — no population weighting, no votes and no editorial judgement — which is why Almaty and Bishkek both currently sit at $0.
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6Settle it
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