Head to head
Sanaa vs Taiz
Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Sanaa is the larger of the two, with 1,937,451 people to 940,600 in Taiz. 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 Sanaa is the larger of the two, with 1,937,451 people to 940,600 in Taiz. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Sanaa nor Taiz has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
Yemen| Metric | Sanaa | Taiz |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 1,937,451 | 940,600 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 1st largest | 3rd largest |
| Country | Yemen | Yemen |
| Region | Amanat Alasimah | Ta‘izz |
| National capital | Yes | No |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 3:18 AM · UTC+03:00 | 3:18 AM · UTC+03:00 |
| 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
198 km apartSanaa and Taiz are 198 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Both are in Yemen. Taiz keeps time the same time as Sanaa.
Sanaa has 996,851 more people — 2.1× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Sanaa or Taiz?
- Sanaa is the larger city by population, with 1,937,451 people to 940,600 in Taiz — a difference of 996,851. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Sanaa and Taiz?
- 198 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Both cities are in Yemen. Taiz keeps time the same time as Sanaa.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Sanaa or Taiz?
- Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Sanaa is the larger of the two, with 1,937,451 people to 940,600 in Taiz. 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 Sanaa and Taiz both currently sit at $0.
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