Head to head
Moscow vs Nizhniy Novgorod
Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Moscow is the larger of the two, with 10,381,222 people to 1,259,013 in Nizhniy Novgorod. 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 Moscow is the larger of the two, with 10,381,222 people to 1,259,013 in Nizhniy Novgorod. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Moscow nor Nizhniy Novgorod has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
Russia| Metric | Moscow | Nizhniy Novgorod |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 10,381,222 | 1,259,013 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 1st largest | 5th largest |
| Country | Russia | Russia |
| Region | Moscow | Nizhny Novgorod Oblast |
| National capital | Yes | No |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 1:58 AM · UTC+03:00 | 1:58 AM · 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
402 km apartMoscow and Nizhniy Novgorod are 402 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Both are in Russia. Nizhniy Novgorod keeps time the same time as Moscow.
Moscow has 9,122,209 more people — 8.2× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Moscow or Nizhniy Novgorod?
- Moscow is the larger city by population, with 10,381,222 people to 1,259,013 in Nizhniy Novgorod — a difference of 9,122,209. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Moscow and Nizhniy Novgorod?
- 402 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Both cities are in Russia. Nizhniy Novgorod keeps time the same time as Moscow.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Moscow or Nizhniy Novgorod?
- Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Moscow is the larger of the two, with 10,381,222 people to 1,259,013 in Nizhniy Novgorod. 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 Moscow and Nizhniy Novgorod both currently sit at $0.
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