Head to head
Kuala Lumpur vs Johor Bahru
Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Kuala Lumpur is the larger of the two, with 1,453,975 people to 858,118 in Johor Bahru. 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 Kuala Lumpur is the larger of the two, with 1,453,975 people to 858,118 in Johor Bahru. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Kuala Lumpur nor Johor Bahru has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
Malaysia| Metric | Kuala Lumpur | Johor Bahru |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 1,453,975 | 858,118 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 1st largest | 2nd largest |
| Country | Malaysia | Malaysia |
| Region | Kuala Lumpur | Johor |
| National capital | Yes | No |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 8:21 AM · UTC+08:00 | 8:21 AM · UTC+08:00 |
| 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
296 km apartKuala Lumpur and Johor Bahru are 296 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Both are in Malaysia. Johor Bahru keeps time the same time as Kuala Lumpur.
Kuala Lumpur has 595,857 more people — 1.7× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Kuala Lumpur or Johor Bahru?
- Kuala Lumpur is the larger city by population, with 1,453,975 people to 858,118 in Johor Bahru — a difference of 595,857. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Kuala Lumpur and Johor Bahru?
- 296 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Both cities are in Malaysia. Johor Bahru keeps time the same time as Kuala Lumpur.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Kuala Lumpur or Johor Bahru?
- Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Kuala Lumpur is the larger of the two, with 1,453,975 people to 858,118 in Johor Bahru. 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 Kuala Lumpur and Johor Bahru both currently sit at $0.
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6Settle it
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