Head to head
Tijuana vs Rosarito
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 100,660 in Rosarito. 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 100,660 in Rosarito. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Tijuana nor Rosarito has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
Mexico| Metric | Tijuana | Rosarito |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 1,922,523 | 100,660 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 2nd largest | 141st largest |
| Country | Mexico | Mexico |
| Region | Baja California | Baja California |
| National capital | No | No |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 3:52 PM · UTC-07:00 | 3:52 PM · UTC-07:00 |
| 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
16 km apartTijuana and Rosarito are 16 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Both are in Mexico. Rosarito keeps time the same time as Tijuana.
Tijuana has 1,821,863 more people — 19.1× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Tijuana or Rosarito?
- Tijuana is the larger city by population, with 1,922,523 people to 100,660 in Rosarito — a difference of 1,821,863. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Tijuana and Rosarito?
- 16 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Both cities are in Mexico. Rosarito keeps time the same time as Tijuana.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Tijuana or Rosarito?
- 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 100,660 in Rosarito. 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 Rosarito both currently sit at $0.
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4Settle it
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