Head to head
Moscow vs Saint Petersburg
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 5,351,935 in Saint Petersburg. 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 5,351,935 in Saint Petersburg. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Moscow nor Saint Petersburg has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
Russia| Metric | Moscow | Saint Petersburg |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 10,381,222 | 5,351,935 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 1st largest | 2nd largest |
| Country | Russia | Russia |
| Region | Moscow | St.-Petersburg |
| National capital | Yes | No |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 3:21 AM · UTC+03:00 | 3:21 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
635 km apartMoscow and Saint Petersburg are 635 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Both are in Russia. Saint Petersburg keeps time the same time as Moscow.
Moscow has 5,029,287 more people — 1.9× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Moscow or Saint Petersburg?
- Moscow is the larger city by population, with 10,381,222 people to 5,351,935 in Saint Petersburg — a difference of 5,029,287. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Moscow and Saint Petersburg?
- 635 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Both cities are in Russia. Saint Petersburg keeps time the same time as Moscow.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Moscow or Saint Petersburg?
- 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 5,351,935 in Saint Petersburg. 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 Saint Petersburg both currently sit at $0.
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