Head to head
Kabul vs Nairobi
Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Kabul is the larger of the two, with 4,434,550 people to 4,397,073 in Nairobi. 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 Kabul is the larger of the two, with 4,434,550 people to 4,397,073 in Nairobi. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Kabul nor Nairobi has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
Two countries| Metric | Kabul | Nairobi |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 4,434,550 | 4,397,073 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 1st largest | 1st largest |
| Country | Afghanistan | Kenya |
| Region | Kabul | Nairobi County |
| National capital | Yes | Yes |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 12:18 AM · UTC+04:30 | 10:48 PM · 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
5,217 km apartKabul and Nairobi are 5,217 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Kabul is in Afghanistan; Nairobi is in Kenya. Nairobi keeps time 1 hour 30 minutes behind Kabul.
Kabul has 37,477 more people — 1.0× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Kabul or Nairobi?
- Kabul is the larger city by population, with 4,434,550 people to 4,397,073 in Nairobi — a difference of 37,477. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Kabul and Nairobi?
- 5,217 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Kabul is in Afghanistan and Nairobi is in Kenya. Nairobi keeps time 1 hour 30 minutes behind Kabul.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Kabul or Nairobi?
- Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Kabul is the larger of the two, with 4,434,550 people to 4,397,073 in Nairobi. 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 Kabul and Nairobi both currently sit at $0.
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