Head to head
Beijing vs Lagos
Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Beijing is the larger of the two, with 18,960,744 people to 15,388,000 in Lagos. 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 Beijing is the larger of the two, with 18,960,744 people to 15,388,000 in Lagos. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Beijing nor Lagos has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
Two countries| Metric | Beijing | Lagos |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 18,960,744 | 15,388,000 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 2nd largest | 1st largest |
| Country | China | Nigeria |
| Region | Beijing | Lagos |
| National capital | Yes | No |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 6:51 AM · UTC+08:00 | 11:51 PM · UTC+01:00 |
| 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
11,458 km apartBeijing and Lagos are 11,458 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Beijing is in China; Lagos is in Nigeria. Lagos keeps time 7 hours behind Beijing.
Beijing has 3,572,744 more people — 1.2× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Beijing or Lagos?
- Beijing is the larger city by population, with 18,960,744 people to 15,388,000 in Lagos — a difference of 3,572,744. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Beijing and Lagos?
- 11,458 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Beijing is in China and Lagos is in Nigeria. Lagos keeps time 7 hours behind Beijing.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Beijing or Lagos?
- Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Beijing is the larger of the two, with 18,960,744 people to 15,388,000 in Lagos. 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 Beijing and Lagos both currently sit at $0.
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