Head to head
Karachi vs Peshawar
Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Karachi is the larger of the two, with 11,624,219 people to 4,758,762 in Peshawar. 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 Karachi is the larger of the two, with 11,624,219 people to 4,758,762 in Peshawar. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Karachi nor Peshawar has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
Pakistan| Metric | Karachi | Peshawar |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 11,624,219 | 4,758,762 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 2nd largest | 3rd largest |
| Country | Pakistan | Pakistan |
| Region | Sindh | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa |
| National capital | No | No |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 3:53 AM · UTC+05:00 | 3:53 AM · UTC+05:00 |
| 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
1,109 km apartKarachi and Peshawar are 1,109 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Both are in Pakistan. Peshawar keeps time the same time as Karachi.
Karachi has 6,865,457 more people — 2.4× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Karachi or Peshawar?
- Karachi is the larger city by population, with 11,624,219 people to 4,758,762 in Peshawar — a difference of 6,865,457. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Karachi and Peshawar?
- 1,109 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Both cities are in Pakistan. Peshawar keeps time the same time as Karachi.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Karachi or Peshawar?
- Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Karachi is the larger of the two, with 11,624,219 people to 4,758,762 in Peshawar. 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 Karachi and Peshawar both currently sit at $0.
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6Settle it
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