Head to head
Santiago de Cuba vs Holguín
Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Santiago de Cuba is the larger of the two, with 555,865 people to 319,102 in Holguín. 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 Santiago de Cuba is the larger of the two, with 555,865 people to 319,102 in Holguín. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Santiago de Cuba nor Holguín has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
Cuba| Metric | Santiago de Cuba | Holguín |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 555,865 | 319,102 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 2nd largest | 4th largest |
| Country | Cuba | Cuba |
| Region | Santiago de Cuba Province | Holguín Province |
| National capital | No | No |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 8:22 PM · UTC-04:00 | 8:22 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
107 km apartSantiago de Cuba and Holguín are 107 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Both are in Cuba. Holguín keeps time the same time as Santiago de Cuba.
Santiago de Cuba has 236,763 more people — 1.7× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Santiago de Cuba or Holguín?
- Santiago de Cuba is the larger city by population, with 555,865 people to 319,102 in Holguín — a difference of 236,763. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Santiago de Cuba and Holguín?
- 107 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Both cities are in Cuba. Holguín keeps time the same time as Santiago de Cuba.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Santiago de Cuba or Holguín?
- Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Santiago de Cuba is the larger of the two, with 555,865 people to 319,102 in Holguín. 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 Santiago de Cuba and Holguín both currently sit at $0.
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