Head to head
Johannesburg vs Cape Town
Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Johannesburg is the larger of the two, with 9,418,183 people to 4,772,846 in Cape Town. 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 Johannesburg is the larger of the two, with 9,418,183 people to 4,772,846 in Cape Town. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Johannesburg nor Cape Town has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
South Africa| Metric | Johannesburg | Cape Town |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 9,418,183 | 4,772,846 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 1st largest | 2nd largest |
| Country | South Africa | South Africa |
| Region | Gauteng | Western Cape |
| National capital | No | No |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 2:21 AM · UTC+02:00 | 2:21 AM · UTC+02:00 |
| 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
1,262 km apartJohannesburg and Cape Town are 1,262 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Both are in South Africa. Cape Town keeps time the same time as Johannesburg.
Johannesburg has 4,645,337 more people — 2.0× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Johannesburg or Cape Town?
- Johannesburg is the larger city by population, with 9,418,183 people to 4,772,846 in Cape Town — a difference of 4,645,337. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Johannesburg and Cape Town?
- 1,262 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Both cities are in South Africa. Cape Town keeps time the same time as Johannesburg.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Johannesburg or Cape Town?
- Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Johannesburg is the larger of the two, with 9,418,183 people to 4,772,846 in Cape Town. 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 Johannesburg and Cape Town both currently sit at $0.
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