Head to head
Dar es Salaam vs Mwanza
Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Dar es Salaam is the larger of the two, with 5,383,728 people to 1,104,521 in Mwanza. 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 Dar es Salaam is the larger of the two, with 5,383,728 people to 1,104,521 in Mwanza. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Dar es Salaam nor Mwanza has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
Tanzania| Metric | Dar es Salaam | Mwanza |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 5,383,728 | 1,104,521 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 1st largest | 2nd largest |
| Country | Tanzania | Tanzania |
| Region | Dar es Salaam Region | Mwanza |
| National capital | No | No |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 1:57 AM · UTC+03:00 | 1:57 AM · 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
853 km apartDar es Salaam and Mwanza are 853 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Both are in Tanzania. Mwanza keeps time the same time as Dar es Salaam.
Dar es Salaam has 4,279,207 more people — 4.9× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Dar es Salaam or Mwanza?
- Dar es Salaam is the larger city by population, with 5,383,728 people to 1,104,521 in Mwanza — a difference of 4,279,207. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Dar es Salaam and Mwanza?
- 853 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Both cities are in Tanzania. Mwanza keeps time the same time as Dar es Salaam.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Dar es Salaam or Mwanza?
- Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Dar es Salaam is the larger of the two, with 5,383,728 people to 1,104,521 in Mwanza. 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 Dar es Salaam and Mwanza both currently sit at $0.
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