Head to head
Pikine vs Thiès
Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Pikine is the larger of the two, with 1,170,791 people to 317,763 in Thiès. 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 Pikine is the larger of the two, with 1,170,791 people to 317,763 in Thiès. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Pikine nor Thiès has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
Senegal| Metric | Pikine | Thiès |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 1,170,791 | 317,763 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 2nd largest | 5th largest |
| Country | Senegal | Senegal |
| Region | Dakar | Thies |
| National capital | No | No |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 12:16 AM · UTC+00:00 | 12:16 AM · UTC+00:00 |
| 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
50 km apartPikine and Thiès are 50 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Both are in Senegal. Thiès keeps time the same time as Pikine.
Pikine has 853,028 more people — 3.7× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Pikine or Thiès?
- Pikine is the larger city by population, with 1,170,791 people to 317,763 in Thiès — a difference of 853,028. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Pikine and Thiès?
- 50 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Both cities are in Senegal. Thiès keeps time the same time as Pikine.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Pikine or Thiès?
- Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Pikine is the larger of the two, with 1,170,791 people to 317,763 in Thiès. 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 Pikine and Thiès both currently sit at $0.
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6Settle it
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