Head to head
Mexico City vs Puebla
Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Mexico City is the larger of the two, with 12,294,193 people to 1,692,181 in Puebla. 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 Mexico City is the larger of the two, with 12,294,193 people to 1,692,181 in Puebla. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Mexico City nor Puebla has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
Mexico| Metric | Mexico City | Puebla |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 12,294,193 | 1,692,181 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 1st largest | 4th largest |
| Country | Mexico | Mexico |
| Region | Mexico City | Puebla |
| National capital | Yes | No |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 7:49 PM · UTC-06:00 | 7:49 PM · UTC-06:00 |
| 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
106 km apartMexico City and Puebla are 106 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Both are in Mexico. Puebla keeps time the same time as Mexico City.
Mexico City has 10,602,012 more people — 7.3× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Mexico City or Puebla?
- Mexico City is the larger city by population, with 12,294,193 people to 1,692,181 in Puebla — a difference of 10,602,012. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Mexico City and Puebla?
- 106 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Both cities are in Mexico. Puebla keeps time the same time as Mexico City.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Mexico City or Puebla?
- Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Mexico City is the larger of the two, with 12,294,193 people to 1,692,181 in Puebla. 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 Mexico City and Puebla both currently sit at $0.
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6Settle it
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