Head to head
Tripoli vs Benghazi
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 1,302,947 people to 757,490 in Benghazi. 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 1,302,947 people to 757,490 in Benghazi. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Tripoli nor Benghazi has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
Libya| Metric | Tripoli | Benghazi |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 1,302,947 | 757,490 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 1st largest | 2nd largest |
| Country | Libya | Libya |
| Region | Tripoli | Banghazi |
| National capital | Yes | No |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 2:14 AM · UTC+02:00 | 2:14 AM · UTC+02:00 |
| 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
651 km apartTripoli and Benghazi are 651 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Both are in Libya. Benghazi keeps time the same time as Tripoli.
Tripoli has 545,457 more people — 1.7× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Tripoli or Benghazi?
- Tripoli is the larger city by population, with 1,302,947 people to 757,490 in Benghazi — a difference of 545,457. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Tripoli and Benghazi?
- 651 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Both cities are in Libya. Benghazi keeps time the same time as Tripoli.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Tripoli or Benghazi?
- 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 1,302,947 people to 757,490 in Benghazi. 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 Benghazi both currently sit at $0.
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6Settle it
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