Head to head
Cairo vs Xi’an
Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Cairo is the larger of the two, with 9,606,916 people to 9,600,000 in Xi’an. 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 Cairo is the larger of the two, with 9,606,916 people to 9,600,000 in Xi’an. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Cairo nor Xi’an has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
Two countries| Metric | Cairo | Xi’an |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 9,606,916 | 9,600,000 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 1st largest | 9th largest |
| Country | Egypt | China |
| Region | Cairo | Shaanxi |
| National capital | Yes | No |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 10:48 PM · UTC+03:00 | 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
7,143 km apartCairo and Xi’an are 7,143 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Cairo is in Egypt; Xi’an is in China. Xi’an keeps time 5 hours ahead of Cairo.
Cairo has 6,916 more people — 1.0× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Cairo or Xi’an?
- Cairo is the larger city by population, with 9,606,916 people to 9,600,000 in Xi’an — a difference of 6,916. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Cairo and Xi’an?
- 7,143 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Cairo is in Egypt and Xi’an is in China. Xi’an keeps time 5 hours ahead of Cairo.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Cairo or Xi’an?
- Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Cairo is the larger of the two, with 9,606,916 people to 9,600,000 in Xi’an. 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 Cairo and Xi’an both currently sit at $0.
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