Head to head
Khartoum vs Nyala
Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Khartoum is the larger of the two, with 1,974,647 people to 565,734 in Nyala. 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 is the larger of the two, with 1,974,647 people to 565,734 in Nyala. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Khartoum nor Nyala has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
Sudan| Metric | Khartoum | Nyala |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 1,974,647 | 565,734 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 1st largest | 4th largest |
| Country | Sudan | Sudan |
| Region | Khartoum | Southern Darfur |
| National capital | Yes | No |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 12:55 AM · UTC+02:00 | 12:55 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
913 km apartKhartoum and Nyala are 913 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Both are in Sudan. Nyala keeps time the same time as Khartoum.
Khartoum has 1,408,913 more people — 3.5× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Khartoum or Nyala?
- Khartoum is the larger city by population, with 1,974,647 people to 565,734 in Nyala — a difference of 1,408,913. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Khartoum and Nyala?
- 913 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Both cities are in Sudan. Nyala keeps time the same time as Khartoum.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Khartoum or Nyala?
- Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Khartoum is the larger of the two, with 1,974,647 people to 565,734 in Nyala. 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 and Nyala both currently sit at $0.
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6Settle it
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