Head to head
Bogotá vs Cartagena
Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Bogotá is the larger of the two, with 7,674,366 people to 914,552 in Cartagena. 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 Bogotá is the larger of the two, with 7,674,366 people to 914,552 in Cartagena. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Bogotá nor Cartagena has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
Colombia| Metric | Bogotá | Cartagena |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 7,674,366 | 914,552 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 1st largest | 5th largest |
| Country | Colombia | Colombia |
| Region | Bogota D.C. | Bolívar |
| National capital | Yes | No |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 8:48 PM · UTC-05:00 | 8:48 PM · UTC-05:00 |
| 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
662 km apartBogotá and Cartagena are 662 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Both are in Colombia. Cartagena keeps time the same time as Bogotá.
Bogotá has 6,759,814 more people — 8.4× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Bogotá or Cartagena?
- Bogotá is the larger city by population, with 7,674,366 people to 914,552 in Cartagena — a difference of 6,759,814. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Bogotá and Cartagena?
- 662 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Both cities are in Colombia. Cartagena keeps time the same time as Bogotá.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Bogotá or Cartagena?
- Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Bogotá is the larger of the two, with 7,674,366 people to 914,552 in Cartagena. 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 Bogotá and Cartagena both currently sit at $0.
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6Settle it
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