Head to head
Mumbai vs Delhi
Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Mumbai is the larger of the two, with 12,691,836 people to 11,034,555 in Delhi. 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 Mumbai is the larger of the two, with 12,691,836 people to 11,034,555 in Delhi. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Mumbai nor Delhi has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
India| Metric | Mumbai | Delhi |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 12,691,836 | 11,034,555 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 1st largest | 2nd largest |
| Country | India | India |
| Region | Maharashtra | Delhi |
| National capital | No | No |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 4:24 AM · UTC+05:30 | 4:24 AM · UTC+05:30 |
| 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
1,153 km apartMumbai and Delhi are 1,153 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Both are in India. Delhi keeps time the same time as Mumbai.
Mumbai has 1,657,281 more people — 1.2× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Mumbai or Delhi?
- Mumbai is the larger city by population, with 12,691,836 people to 11,034,555 in Delhi — a difference of 1,657,281. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Mumbai and Delhi?
- 1,153 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Both cities are in India. Delhi keeps time the same time as Mumbai.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Mumbai or Delhi?
- Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Mumbai is the larger of the two, with 12,691,836 people to 11,034,555 in Delhi. 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 Mumbai and Delhi both currently sit at $0.
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