Head to head
Jakarta vs Bengaluru
Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Jakarta is the larger of the two, with 8,540,121 people to 8,495,492 in Bengaluru. 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 Jakarta is the larger of the two, with 8,540,121 people to 8,495,492 in Bengaluru. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Jakarta nor Bengaluru has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
Two countries| Metric | Jakarta | Bengaluru |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 8,540,121 | 8,495,492 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 1st largest | 3rd largest |
| Country | Indonesia | India |
| Region | Jakarta | Karnataka |
| National capital | Yes | No |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 2:48 AM · UTC+07:00 | 1:18 AM · UTC+05:30 |
| 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
3,872 km apartJakarta and Bengaluru are 3,872 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Jakarta is in Indonesia; Bengaluru is in India. Bengaluru keeps time 1 hour 30 minutes behind Jakarta.
Jakarta has 44,629 more people — 1.0× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Jakarta or Bengaluru?
- Jakarta is the larger city by population, with 8,540,121 people to 8,495,492 in Bengaluru — a difference of 44,629. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Jakarta and Bengaluru?
- 3,872 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Jakarta is in Indonesia and Bengaluru is in India. Bengaluru keeps time 1 hour 30 minutes behind Jakarta.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Jakarta or Bengaluru?
- Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Jakarta is the larger of the two, with 8,540,121 people to 8,495,492 in Bengaluru. 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 Jakarta and Bengaluru both currently sit at $0.
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