Head to head
Sydney vs Melbourne
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 5,435,590 in Melbourne. 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 5,435,590 in Melbourne. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Sydney nor Melbourne has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
Australia| Metric | Sydney | Melbourne |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 5,638,830 | 5,435,590 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 1st largest | 2nd largest |
| Country | Australia | Australia |
| Region | New South Wales | Victoria |
| National capital | No | No |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 8:51 AM · UTC+10:00 | 8:51 AM · UTC+10:00 |
| 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
713 km apartSydney and Melbourne are 713 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Both are in Australia. Melbourne keeps time the same time as Sydney.
Sydney has 203,240 more people — 1.0× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Sydney or Melbourne?
- Sydney is the larger city by population, with 5,638,830 people to 5,435,590 in Melbourne — a difference of 203,240. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Sydney and Melbourne?
- 713 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Both cities are in Australia. Melbourne keeps time the same time as Sydney.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Sydney or Melbourne?
- 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 5,435,590 in Melbourne. 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 Melbourne both currently sit at $0.
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