Head to head
Khartoum North vs Port Sudan
Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Khartoum North is the larger of the two, with 1,012,211 people to 489,725 in Port Sudan. 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 Khartoum North is the larger of the two, with 1,012,211 people to 489,725 in Port Sudan. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Khartoum North nor Port Sudan has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
Sudan| Metric | Khartoum North | Port Sudan |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 1,012,211 | 489,725 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 3rd largest | 5th largest |
| Country | Sudan | Sudan |
| Region | Khartoum | Red Sea |
| National capital | No | No |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 12:57 AM · UTC+02:00 | 12:57 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
664 km apartKhartoum North and Port Sudan are 664 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Both are in Sudan. Port Sudan keeps time the same time as Khartoum North.
Khartoum North has 522,486 more people — 2.1× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Khartoum North or Port Sudan?
- Khartoum North is the larger city by population, with 1,012,211 people to 489,725 in Port Sudan — a difference of 522,486. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Khartoum North and Port Sudan?
- 664 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Both cities are in Sudan. Port Sudan keeps time the same time as Khartoum North.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Khartoum North or Port Sudan?
- Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Khartoum North is the larger of the two, with 1,012,211 people to 489,725 in Port Sudan. 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 Khartoum North and Port Sudan both currently sit at $0.
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6Settle it
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