Head to head
Bamako vs Riyadh
Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Bamako is the larger of the two, with 4,227,569 people to 4,205,961 in Riyadh. 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 Bamako is the larger of the two, with 4,227,569 people to 4,205,961 in Riyadh. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Bamako nor Riyadh has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
Two countries| Metric | Bamako | Riyadh |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 4,227,569 | 4,205,961 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 1st largest | 2nd largest |
| Country | Mali | Saudi Arabia |
| Region | Bamako | Riyadh Region |
| National capital | Yes | Yes |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 7:48 PM · UTC+00:00 | 10:48 PM · UTC+03:00 |
| 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
5,879 km apartBamako and Riyadh are 5,879 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Bamako is in Mali; Riyadh is in Saudi Arabia. Riyadh keeps time 3 hours ahead of Bamako.
Bamako has 21,608 more people — 1.0× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Bamako or Riyadh?
- Bamako is the larger city by population, with 4,227,569 people to 4,205,961 in Riyadh — a difference of 21,608. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Bamako and Riyadh?
- 5,879 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Bamako is in Mali and Riyadh is in Saudi Arabia. Riyadh keeps time 3 hours ahead of Bamako.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Bamako or Riyadh?
- Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Bamako is the larger of the two, with 4,227,569 people to 4,205,961 in Riyadh. 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 Bamako and Riyadh both currently sit at $0.
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6Settle it
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