Head to head
Bangkok vs Samut Prakan
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 388,920 in Samut Prakan. 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 388,920 in Samut Prakan. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Bangkok nor Samut Prakan has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
Thailand| Metric | Bangkok | Samut Prakan |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 5,104,476 | 388,920 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 1st largest | 2nd largest |
| Country | Thailand | Thailand |
| Region | Bangkok | Samut Prakan |
| National capital | Yes | No |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 5:57 AM · UTC+07:00 | 5:57 AM · UTC+07:00 |
| 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
20 km apartBangkok and Samut Prakan are 20 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Both are in Thailand. Samut Prakan keeps time the same time as Bangkok.
Bangkok has 4,715,556 more people — 13.1× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Bangkok or Samut Prakan?
- Bangkok is the larger city by population, with 5,104,476 people to 388,920 in Samut Prakan — a difference of 4,715,556. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Bangkok and Samut Prakan?
- 20 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Both cities are in Thailand. Samut Prakan keeps time the same time as Bangkok.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Bangkok or Samut Prakan?
- 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 388,920 in Samut Prakan. 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 Samut Prakan both currently sit at $0.
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6Settle it
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