Head to head
Kinshasa vs Lagos
Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Kinshasa is the larger of the two, with 16,000,000 people to 15,388,000 in Lagos. 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 Kinshasa is the larger of the two, with 16,000,000 people to 15,388,000 in Lagos. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Kinshasa nor Lagos has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
Two countries| Metric | Kinshasa | Lagos |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 16,000,000 | 15,388,000 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 1st largest | 1st largest |
| Country | Democratic Republic of the Congo | Nigeria |
| Region | Kinshasa | Lagos |
| National capital | Yes | No |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 1:16 AM · UTC+01:00 | 1:16 AM · UTC+01:00 |
| 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
1,785 km apartKinshasa and Lagos are 1,785 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Kinshasa is in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Lagos is in Nigeria. Lagos keeps time the same time as Kinshasa.
Kinshasa has 612,000 more people — 1.0× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Kinshasa or Lagos?
- Kinshasa is the larger city by population, with 16,000,000 people to 15,388,000 in Lagos — a difference of 612,000. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Kinshasa and Lagos?
- 1,785 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Kinshasa is in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Lagos is in Nigeria. Lagos keeps time the same time as Kinshasa.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Kinshasa or Lagos?
- Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Kinshasa is the larger of the two, with 16,000,000 people to 15,388,000 in Lagos. 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 Kinshasa and Lagos both currently sit at $0.
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