Head to head
Bharatpur vs Birgañj
Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Bharatpur is the larger of the two, with 369,377 people to 268,273 in Birgañj. 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 Bharatpur is the larger of the two, with 369,377 people to 268,273 in Birgañj. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Bharatpur nor Birgañj has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
Nepal| Metric | Bharatpur | Birgañj |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 369,377 | 268,273 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 3rd largest | 5th largest |
| Country | Nepal | Nepal |
| Region | Bagmati Province | Madhesh |
| National capital | No | No |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 4:42 AM · UTC+05:45 | 4:42 AM · UTC+05:45 |
| 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
86 km apartBharatpur and Birgañj are 86 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Both are in Nepal. Birgañj keeps time the same time as Bharatpur.
Bharatpur has 101,104 more people — 1.4× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Bharatpur or Birgañj?
- Bharatpur is the larger city by population, with 369,377 people to 268,273 in Birgañj — a difference of 101,104. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Bharatpur and Birgañj?
- 86 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Both cities are in Nepal. Birgañj keeps time the same time as Bharatpur.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Bharatpur or Birgañj?
- Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Bharatpur is the larger of the two, with 369,377 people to 268,273 in Birgañj. 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 Bharatpur and Birgañj both currently sit at $0.
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