Head to head
Giza vs Port Said
Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Giza is the larger of the two, with 4,367,343 people to 780,515 in Port Said. 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 Giza is the larger of the two, with 4,367,343 people to 780,515 in Port Said. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Giza nor Port Said has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
Egypt| Metric | Giza | Port Said |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 4,367,343 | 780,515 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 3rd largest | 5th largest |
| Country | Egypt | Egypt |
| Region | Giza | Port Said |
| 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
174 km apartGiza and Port Said are 174 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Both are in Egypt. Port Said keeps time the same time as Giza.
Giza has 3,586,828 more people — 5.6× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Giza or Port Said?
- Giza is the larger city by population, with 4,367,343 people to 780,515 in Port Said — a difference of 3,586,828. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Giza and Port Said?
- 174 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Both cities are in Egypt. Port Said keeps time the same time as Giza.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Giza or Port Said?
- Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Giza is the larger of the two, with 4,367,343 people to 780,515 in Port Said. 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 Giza and Port Said both currently sit at $0.
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