Head to head
Santiago vs Cape Town
Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Santiago is the larger of the two, with 4,837,295 people to 4,772,846 in Cape Town. 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 is the larger of the two, with 4,837,295 people to 4,772,846 in Cape Town. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Santiago nor Cape Town has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
Two countries| Metric | Santiago | Cape Town |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 4,837,295 | 4,772,846 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 1st largest | 2nd largest |
| Country | Chile | South Africa |
| Region | Santiago Metropolitan | Western Cape |
| National capital | Yes | No |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 3:48 PM · UTC-04:00 | 9:48 PM · UTC+02:00 |
| 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
7,940 km apartSantiago and Cape Town are 7,940 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Santiago is in Chile; Cape Town is in South Africa. Cape Town keeps time 6 hours ahead of Santiago.
Santiago has 64,449 more people — 1.0× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Santiago or Cape Town?
- Santiago is the larger city by population, with 4,837,295 people to 4,772,846 in Cape Town — a difference of 64,449. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Santiago and Cape Town?
- 7,940 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Santiago is in Chile and Cape Town is in South Africa. Cape Town keeps time 6 hours ahead of Santiago.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Santiago or Cape Town?
- Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Santiago is the larger of the two, with 4,837,295 people to 4,772,846 in Cape Town. 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 and Cape Town both currently sit at $0.
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