Head to head
Sydney vs Adelaide
Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Sydney is the larger of the two, with 5,638,830 people to 1,469,163 in Adelaide. 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 Sydney is the larger of the two, with 5,638,830 people to 1,469,163 in Adelaide. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Sydney nor Adelaide has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
Australia| Metric | Sydney | Adelaide |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 5,638,830 | 1,469,163 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 1st largest | 5th largest |
| Country | Australia | Australia |
| Region | New South Wales | South Australia |
| National capital | No | No |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 8:52 AM · UTC+10:00 | 8:22 AM · UTC+09:30 |
| 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
1,162 km apartSydney and Adelaide are 1,162 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Both are in Australia. Adelaide keeps time 30 minutes behind Sydney.
Sydney has 4,169,667 more people — 3.8× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Sydney or Adelaide?
- Sydney is the larger city by population, with 5,638,830 people to 1,469,163 in Adelaide — a difference of 4,169,667. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Sydney and Adelaide?
- 1,162 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Both cities are in Australia. Adelaide keeps time 30 minutes behind Sydney.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Sydney or Adelaide?
- Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Sydney is the larger of the two, with 5,638,830 people to 1,469,163 in Adelaide. 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 Sydney and Adelaide both currently sit at $0.
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