Head to head
Bishkek vs Osh
Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Bishkek is the larger of the two, with 900,000 people to 322,164 in Osh. 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 Bishkek is the larger of the two, with 900,000 people to 322,164 in Osh. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Bishkek nor Osh has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
Kyrgyzstan| Metric | Bishkek | Osh |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 900,000 | 322,164 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 1st largest | 2nd largest |
| Country | Kyrgyzstan | Kyrgyzstan |
| Region | Bishkek | Osh Region |
| National capital | Yes | No |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 4:54 AM · UTC+06:00 | 4:54 AM · UTC+06:00 |
| 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
300 km apartBishkek and Osh are 300 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Both are in Kyrgyzstan. Osh keeps time the same time as Bishkek.
Bishkek has 577,836 more people — 2.8× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Bishkek or Osh?
- Bishkek is the larger city by population, with 900,000 people to 322,164 in Osh — a difference of 577,836. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Bishkek and Osh?
- 300 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Both cities are in Kyrgyzstan. Osh keeps time the same time as Bishkek.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Bishkek or Osh?
- Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Bishkek is the larger of the two, with 900,000 people to 322,164 in Osh. 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 Bishkek and Osh both currently sit at $0.
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3Settle it
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