Head to head
Bangkok vs Hefei
Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Bangkok is the larger of the two, with 5,104,476 people to 5,050,000 in Hefei. 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 Bangkok is the larger of the two, with 5,104,476 people to 5,050,000 in Hefei. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Bangkok nor Hefei has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
Two countries| Metric | Bangkok | Hefei |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 5,104,476 | 5,050,000 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 1st largest | 24th largest |
| Country | Thailand | China |
| Region | Bangkok | Anhui |
| National capital | Yes | No |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 2:48 AM · UTC+07:00 | 3:48 AM · UTC+08:00 |
| 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
2,640 km apartBangkok and Hefei are 2,640 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Bangkok is in Thailand; Hefei is in China. Hefei keeps time 1 hour ahead of Bangkok.
Bangkok has 54,476 more people — 1.0× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Bangkok or Hefei?
- Bangkok is the larger city by population, with 5,104,476 people to 5,050,000 in Hefei — a difference of 54,476. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Bangkok and Hefei?
- 2,640 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Bangkok is in Thailand and Hefei is in China. Hefei keeps time 1 hour ahead of Bangkok.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Bangkok or Hefei?
- Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Bangkok is the larger of the two, with 5,104,476 people to 5,050,000 in Hefei. 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 Bangkok and Hefei both currently sit at $0.
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6Settle it
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