Head to head
Lomé vs Ho
Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Lomé is the larger of the two, with 2,188,376 people to 130,701 in Ho. 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 Lomé is the larger of the two, with 2,188,376 people to 130,701 in Ho. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Lomé nor Ho has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
Two countries| Metric | Lomé | Ho |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 2,188,376 | 130,701 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 1st largest | 13th largest |
| Country | Togo | Ghana |
| Region | Maritime | Volta |
| National capital | Yes | No |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 12:14 AM · UTC+00:00 | 12:14 AM · UTC+00:00 |
| 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
98 km apartLomé and Ho are 98 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Lomé is in Togo; Ho is in Ghana. Ho keeps time the same time as Lomé.
Lomé has 2,057,675 more people — 16.7× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Lomé or Ho?
- Lomé is the larger city by population, with 2,188,376 people to 130,701 in Ho — a difference of 2,057,675. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Lomé and Ho?
- 98 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Lomé is in Togo and Ho is in Ghana. Ho keeps time the same time as Lomé.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Lomé or Ho?
- Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Lomé is the larger of the two, with 2,188,376 people to 130,701 in Ho. 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 Lomé and Ho both currently sit at $0.
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2Settle it
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