Head to head
Port-au-Prince vs Carrefour
Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Port-au-Prince is the larger of the two, with 1,234,742 people to 511,345 in Carrefour. 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 Port-au-Prince is the larger of the two, with 1,234,742 people to 511,345 in Carrefour. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Port-au-Prince nor Carrefour has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
Haiti| Metric | Port-au-Prince | Carrefour |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 1,234,742 | 511,345 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 1st largest | 2nd largest |
| Country | Haiti | Haiti |
| Region | Ouest | Ouest |
| National capital | Yes | No |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 6:57 PM · UTC-04:00 | 6:57 PM · UTC-04:00 |
| 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
7 km apartPort-au-Prince and Carrefour are 7 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Both are in Haiti. Carrefour keeps time the same time as Port-au-Prince.
Port-au-Prince has 723,397 more people — 2.4× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Port-au-Prince or Carrefour?
- Port-au-Prince is the larger city by population, with 1,234,742 people to 511,345 in Carrefour — a difference of 723,397. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Port-au-Prince and Carrefour?
- 7 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Both cities are in Haiti. Carrefour keeps time the same time as Port-au-Prince.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Port-au-Prince or Carrefour?
- Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Port-au-Prince is the larger of the two, with 1,234,742 people to 511,345 in Carrefour. 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 Port-au-Prince and Carrefour both currently sit at $0.
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