Head to head
Kano vs Santiago
Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Kano is the larger of the two, with 4,910,000 people to 4,837,295 in Santiago. 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 Kano is the larger of the two, with 4,910,000 people to 4,837,295 in Santiago. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Kano nor Santiago has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
Two countries| Metric | Kano | Santiago |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 4,910,000 | 4,837,295 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 2nd largest | 1st largest |
| Country | Nigeria | Chile |
| Region | Kano State | Santiago Metropolitan |
| National capital | No | Yes |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 8:48 PM · UTC+01:00 | 3:48 PM · UTC-04:00 |
| 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
9,760 km apartKano and Santiago are 9,760 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Kano is in Nigeria; Santiago is in Chile. Santiago keeps time 5 hours behind Kano.
Kano has 72,705 more people — 1.0× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Kano or Santiago?
- Kano is the larger city by population, with 4,910,000 people to 4,837,295 in Santiago — a difference of 72,705. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Kano and Santiago?
- 9,760 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Kano is in Nigeria and Santiago is in Chile. Santiago keeps time 5 hours behind Kano.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Kano or Santiago?
- Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Kano is the larger of the two, with 4,910,000 people to 4,837,295 in Santiago. 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 Kano and Santiago both currently sit at $0.
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