Head to head
Villa Nueva vs Cobán
Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Villa Nueva is the larger of the two, with 618,397 people to 212,047 in Cobán. 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 Villa Nueva is the larger of the two, with 618,397 people to 212,047 in Cobán. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Villa Nueva nor Cobán has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
Guatemala| Metric | Villa Nueva | Cobán |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 618,397 | 212,047 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 2nd largest | 4th largest |
| Country | Guatemala | Guatemala |
| Region | Guatemala | Alta Verapaz |
| National capital | No | No |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 4:56 PM · UTC-06:00 | 4:56 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
108 km apartVilla Nueva and Cobán are 108 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Both are in Guatemala. Cobán keeps time the same time as Villa Nueva.
Villa Nueva has 406,350 more people — 2.9× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Villa Nueva or Cobán?
- Villa Nueva is the larger city by population, with 618,397 people to 212,047 in Cobán — a difference of 406,350. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Villa Nueva and Cobán?
- 108 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Both cities are in Guatemala. Cobán keeps time the same time as Villa Nueva.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Villa Nueva or Cobán?
- Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Villa Nueva is the larger of the two, with 618,397 people to 212,047 in Cobán. 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 Villa Nueva and Cobán both currently sit at $0.
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