Head to head
Melbourne vs Dar es Salaam
Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Melbourne is the larger of the two, with 5,435,590 people to 5,383,728 in Dar es Salaam. 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 Melbourne is the larger of the two, with 5,435,590 people to 5,383,728 in Dar es Salaam. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Melbourne nor Dar es Salaam has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
Two countries| Metric | Melbourne | Dar es Salaam |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 5,435,590 | 5,383,728 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 2nd largest | 1st largest |
| Country | Australia | Tanzania |
| Region | Victoria | Dar es Salaam Region |
| National capital | No | No |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 5:48 AM · UTC+10:00 | 10:48 PM · UTC+03:00 |
| 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
10,898 km apartMelbourne and Dar es Salaam are 10,898 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Melbourne is in Australia; Dar es Salaam is in Tanzania. Dar es Salaam keeps time 7 hours behind Melbourne.
Melbourne has 51,862 more people — 1.0× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Melbourne or Dar es Salaam?
- Melbourne is the larger city by population, with 5,435,590 people to 5,383,728 in Dar es Salaam — a difference of 51,862. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Melbourne and Dar es Salaam?
- 10,898 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Melbourne is in Australia and Dar es Salaam is in Tanzania. Dar es Salaam keeps time 7 hours behind Melbourne.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Melbourne or Dar es Salaam?
- Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Melbourne is the larger of the two, with 5,435,590 people to 5,383,728 in Dar es Salaam. 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 Melbourne and Dar es Salaam both currently sit at $0.
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