Head to head
Tripoli vs Aley
Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Tripoli is the larger of the two, with 229,398 people to 130,000 in Aley. 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 Tripoli is the larger of the two, with 229,398 people to 130,000 in Aley. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Tripoli nor Aley has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
Lebanon| Metric | Tripoli | Aley |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 229,398 | 130,000 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 2nd largest | 5th largest |
| Country | Lebanon | Lebanon |
| Region | North Lebanon | Mount Lebanon |
| National capital | No | No |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 1:57 AM · UTC+03:00 | 1:57 AM · UTC+03:00 |
| 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
73 km apartTripoli and Aley are 73 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Both are in Lebanon. Aley keeps time the same time as Tripoli.
Tripoli has 99,398 more people — 1.8× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Tripoli or Aley?
- Tripoli is the larger city by population, with 229,398 people to 130,000 in Aley — a difference of 99,398. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Tripoli and Aley?
- 73 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Both cities are in Lebanon. Aley keeps time the same time as Tripoli.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Tripoli or Aley?
- Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Tripoli is the larger of the two, with 229,398 people to 130,000 in Aley. 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 Tripoli and Aley both currently sit at $0.
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