Head to head
Ar Rayyān vs Lusail
Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Ar Rayyān is the larger of the two, with 272,465 people to 198,600 in Lusail. 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 Ar Rayyān is the larger of the two, with 272,465 people to 198,600 in Lusail. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Ar Rayyān nor Lusail has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
Qatar| Metric | Ar Rayyān | Lusail |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 272,465 | 198,600 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 2nd largest | 3rd largest |
| Country | Qatar | Qatar |
| Region | Baladiyat ar Rayyan | Al Daayen |
| National capital | No | No |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 1:53 AM · UTC+03:00 | 1:53 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
16 km apartAr Rayyān and Lusail are 16 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Both are in Qatar. Lusail keeps time the same time as Ar Rayyān.
Ar Rayyān has 73,865 more people — 1.4× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Ar Rayyān or Lusail?
- Ar Rayyān is the larger city by population, with 272,465 people to 198,600 in Lusail — a difference of 73,865. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Ar Rayyān and Lusail?
- 16 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Both cities are in Qatar. Lusail keeps time the same time as Ar Rayyān.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Ar Rayyān or Lusail?
- Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Ar Rayyān is the larger of the two, with 272,465 people to 198,600 in Lusail. 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 Ar Rayyān and Lusail both currently sit at $0.
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2Settle it
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