Head to head
Yaoundé vs Bamenda
Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Yaoundé is the larger of the two, with 1,299,369 people to 420,445 in Bamenda. 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 Yaoundé is the larger of the two, with 1,299,369 people to 420,445 in Bamenda. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Yaoundé nor Bamenda has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
Cameroon| Metric | Yaoundé | Bamenda |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 1,299,369 | 420,445 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 2nd largest | 3rd largest |
| Country | Cameroon | Cameroon |
| Region | Centre | North-West |
| National capital | Yes | No |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 11:54 PM · UTC+01:00 | 11:54 PM · UTC+01:00 |
| 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
278 km apartYaoundé and Bamenda are 278 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Both are in Cameroon. Bamenda keeps time the same time as Yaoundé.
Yaoundé has 878,924 more people — 3.1× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Yaoundé or Bamenda?
- Yaoundé is the larger city by population, with 1,299,369 people to 420,445 in Bamenda — a difference of 878,924. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Yaoundé and Bamenda?
- 278 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Both cities are in Cameroon. Bamenda keeps time the same time as Yaoundé.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Yaoundé or Bamenda?
- Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Yaoundé is the larger of the two, with 1,299,369 people to 420,445 in Bamenda. 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 Yaoundé and Bamenda both currently sit at $0.
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6Settle it
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