Head to head
Busan vs Madrid
Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Busan is the larger of the two, with 3,285,147 people to 3,255,944 in Madrid. 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 Busan is the larger of the two, with 3,285,147 people to 3,255,944 in Madrid. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Busan nor Madrid has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
Two countries| Metric | Busan | Madrid |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 3,285,147 | 3,255,944 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 2nd largest | 1st largest |
| Country | South Korea | Spain |
| Region | Busan | Madrid |
| National capital | No | Yes |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 4:48 AM · UTC+09:00 | 9:48 PM · UTC+02:00 |
| 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
10,325 km apartBusan and Madrid are 10,325 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Busan is in South Korea; Madrid is in Spain. Madrid keeps time 7 hours behind Busan.
Busan has 29,203 more people — 1.0× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Busan or Madrid?
- Busan is the larger city by population, with 3,285,147 people to 3,255,944 in Madrid — a difference of 29,203. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Busan and Madrid?
- 10,325 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Busan is in South Korea and Madrid is in Spain. Madrid keeps time 7 hours behind Busan.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Busan or Madrid?
- Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Busan is the larger of the two, with 3,285,147 people to 3,255,944 in Madrid. 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 Busan and Madrid both currently sit at $0.
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