Head to head
Tijuana vs Puebla
Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Tijuana is the larger of the two, with 1,922,523 people to 1,692,181 in Puebla. 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 Tijuana is the larger of the two, with 1,922,523 people to 1,692,181 in Puebla. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Tijuana nor Puebla has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
Mexico| Metric | Tijuana | Puebla |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 1,922,523 | 1,692,181 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 2nd largest | 4th largest |
| Country | Mexico | Mexico |
| Region | Baja California | Puebla |
| National capital | No | No |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 3:52 PM · UTC-07:00 | 4:52 PM · UTC-06:00 |
| 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
2,397 km apartTijuana and Puebla are 2,397 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Both are in Mexico. Puebla keeps time 1 hour ahead of Tijuana.
Tijuana has 230,342 more people — 1.1× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Tijuana or Puebla?
- Tijuana is the larger city by population, with 1,922,523 people to 1,692,181 in Puebla — a difference of 230,342. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Tijuana and Puebla?
- 2,397 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Both cities are in Mexico. Puebla keeps time 1 hour ahead of Tijuana.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Tijuana or Puebla?
- Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Tijuana is the larger of the two, with 1,922,523 people to 1,692,181 in Puebla. 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 Tijuana and Puebla both currently sit at $0.
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6Settle it
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