Head to head
Saint Petersburg vs Yekaterinburg
Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Saint Petersburg is the larger of the two, with 5,351,935 people to 1,495,066 in Yekaterinburg. 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 Saint Petersburg is the larger of the two, with 5,351,935 people to 1,495,066 in Yekaterinburg. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Saint Petersburg nor Yekaterinburg has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
Russia| Metric | Saint Petersburg | Yekaterinburg |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 5,351,935 | 1,495,066 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 2nd largest | 4th largest |
| Country | Russia | Russia |
| Region | St.-Petersburg | Sverdlovsk Oblast |
| National capital | No | No |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 1:57 AM · UTC+03:00 | 3:57 AM · UTC+05:00 |
| 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
1,782 km apartSaint Petersburg and Yekaterinburg are 1,782 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Both are in Russia. Yekaterinburg keeps time 2 hours ahead of Saint Petersburg.
Saint Petersburg has 3,856,869 more people — 3.6× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Saint Petersburg or Yekaterinburg?
- Saint Petersburg is the larger city by population, with 5,351,935 people to 1,495,066 in Yekaterinburg — a difference of 3,856,869. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Saint Petersburg and Yekaterinburg?
- 1,782 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Both cities are in Russia. Yekaterinburg keeps time 2 hours ahead of Saint Petersburg.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Saint Petersburg or Yekaterinburg?
- Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Saint Petersburg is the larger of the two, with 5,351,935 people to 1,495,066 in Yekaterinburg. 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 Saint Petersburg and Yekaterinburg both currently sit at $0.
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