Head to head
Tashkent vs Samarkand
Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Tashkent is the larger of the two, with 1,978,028 people to 595,200 in Samarkand. 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 Tashkent is the larger of the two, with 1,978,028 people to 595,200 in Samarkand. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Tashkent nor Samarkand has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
Uzbekistan| Metric | Tashkent | Samarkand |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 1,978,028 | 595,200 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 1st largest | 4th largest |
| Country | Uzbekistan | Uzbekistan |
| Region | Tashkent | Samarqand Region |
| National capital | Yes | No |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 5:17 AM · UTC+05:00 | 5:17 AM · UTC+05:00 |
| 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
261 km apartTashkent and Samarkand are 261 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Both are in Uzbekistan. Samarkand keeps time the same time as Tashkent.
Tashkent has 1,382,828 more people — 3.3× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Tashkent or Samarkand?
- Tashkent is the larger city by population, with 1,978,028 people to 595,200 in Samarkand — a difference of 1,382,828. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Tashkent and Samarkand?
- 261 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Both cities are in Uzbekistan. Samarkand keeps time the same time as Tashkent.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Tashkent or Samarkand?
- Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Tashkent is the larger of the two, with 1,978,028 people to 595,200 in Samarkand. 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 Tashkent and Samarkand both currently sit at $0.
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6Settle it
Neither city is on the board. The first $1 behind either one decides which of them goes first.
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