Head to head
Belo Horizonte vs Fortaleza
Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Belo Horizonte is the larger of the two, with 2,721,564 people to 2,400,000 in Fortaleza. 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 Belo Horizonte is the larger of the two, with 2,721,564 people to 2,400,000 in Fortaleza. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Belo Horizonte nor Fortaleza has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
Brazil| Metric | Belo Horizonte | Fortaleza |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 2,721,564 | 2,400,000 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 3rd largest | 5th largest |
| Country | Brazil | Brazil |
| Region | Minas Gerais | Ceará |
| National capital | No | No |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 9:21 PM · UTC-03:00 | 9:21 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
1,894 km apartBelo Horizonte and Fortaleza are 1,894 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Both are in Brazil. Fortaleza keeps time the same time as Belo Horizonte.
Belo Horizonte has 321,564 more people — 1.1× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Belo Horizonte or Fortaleza?
- Belo Horizonte is the larger city by population, with 2,721,564 people to 2,400,000 in Fortaleza — a difference of 321,564. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Belo Horizonte and Fortaleza?
- 1,894 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Both cities are in Brazil. Fortaleza keeps time the same time as Belo Horizonte.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Belo Horizonte or Fortaleza?
- Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Belo Horizonte is the larger of the two, with 2,721,564 people to 2,400,000 in Fortaleza. 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 Belo Horizonte and Fortaleza both currently sit at $0.
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6Settle it
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