Head to head
Belo Horizonte vs Nova Lima
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 120,959 in Nova Lima. 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 120,959 in Nova Lima. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Belo Horizonte nor Nova Lima has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
Brazil| Metric | Belo Horizonte | Nova Lima |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 2,721,564 | 120,959 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 3rd largest | 268th largest |
| Country | Brazil | Brazil |
| Region | Minas Gerais | Minas Gerais |
| National capital | No | No |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 9:18 PM · UTC-03:00 | 9:18 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
12 km apartBelo Horizonte and Nova Lima are 12 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Both are in Brazil. Nova Lima keeps time the same time as Belo Horizonte.
Belo Horizonte has 2,600,605 more people — 22.5× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Belo Horizonte or Nova Lima?
- Belo Horizonte is the larger city by population, with 2,721,564 people to 120,959 in Nova Lima — a difference of 2,600,605. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Belo Horizonte and Nova Lima?
- 12 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Both cities are in Brazil. Nova Lima keeps time the same time as Belo Horizonte.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Belo Horizonte or Nova Lima?
- 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 120,959 in Nova Lima. 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 Nova Lima both currently sit at $0.
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4Settle it
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