Head to head
Osaka vs Nagoya
Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Osaka is the larger of the two, with 2,753,862 people to 2,332,176 in Nagoya. 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 Osaka is the larger of the two, with 2,753,862 people to 2,332,176 in Nagoya. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Osaka nor Nagoya has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
Japan| Metric | Osaka | Nagoya |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 2,753,862 | 2,332,176 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 3rd largest | 4th largest |
| Country | Japan | Japan |
| Region | Osaka | Aichi |
| National capital | No | No |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 7:53 AM · UTC+09:00 | 7:53 AM · UTC+09:00 |
| 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
139 km apartOsaka and Nagoya are 139 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Both are in Japan. Nagoya keeps time the same time as Osaka.
Osaka has 421,686 more people — 1.2× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Osaka or Nagoya?
- Osaka is the larger city by population, with 2,753,862 people to 2,332,176 in Nagoya — a difference of 421,686. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Osaka and Nagoya?
- 139 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Both cities are in Japan. Nagoya keeps time the same time as Osaka.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Osaka or Nagoya?
- Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Osaka is the larger of the two, with 2,753,862 people to 2,332,176 in Nagoya. 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 Osaka and Nagoya both currently sit at $0.
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