Head to head
Sfax vs Kairouan
Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Sfax is the larger of the two, with 280,566 people to 139,070 in Kairouan. 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 Sfax is the larger of the two, with 280,566 people to 139,070 in Kairouan. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Sfax nor Kairouan has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
Tunisia| Metric | Sfax | Kairouan |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 280,566 | 139,070 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 2nd largest | 5th largest |
| Country | Tunisia | Tunisia |
| Region | Sfax Governorate | Kairouan |
| National capital | No | No |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 2:46 AM · UTC+01:00 | 2:46 AM · UTC+01:00 |
| 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
120 km apartSfax and Kairouan are 120 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Both are in Tunisia. Kairouan keeps time the same time as Sfax.
Sfax has 141,496 more people — 2.0× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Sfax or Kairouan?
- Sfax is the larger city by population, with 280,566 people to 139,070 in Kairouan — a difference of 141,496. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Sfax and Kairouan?
- 120 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Both cities are in Tunisia. Kairouan keeps time the same time as Sfax.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Sfax or Kairouan?
- Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Sfax is the larger of the two, with 280,566 people to 139,070 in Kairouan. 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 Sfax and Kairouan both currently sit at $0.
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6Settle it
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