Head to head
Dandong vs Sinŭiju
Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Dandong is the larger of the two, with 2,188,436 people to 288,112 in Sinŭiju. 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 Dandong is the larger of the two, with 2,188,436 people to 288,112 in Sinŭiju. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Dandong nor Sinŭiju has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
Two countries| Metric | Dandong | Sinŭiju |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 2,188,436 | 288,112 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 73rd largest | 12th largest |
| Country | China | North Korea |
| Region | Liaoning | P'yŏngan-bukto |
| National capital | No | No |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 9:45 AM · UTC+08:00 | 10:45 AM · UTC+09:00 |
| 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
3 km apartDandong and Sinŭiju are 3 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Dandong is in China; Sinŭiju is in North Korea. Sinŭiju keeps time 1 hour ahead of Dandong.
Dandong has 1,900,324 more people — 7.6× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Dandong or Sinŭiju?
- Dandong is the larger city by population, with 2,188,436 people to 288,112 in Sinŭiju — a difference of 1,900,324. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Dandong and Sinŭiju?
- 3 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Dandong is in China and Sinŭiju is in North Korea. Sinŭiju keeps time 1 hour ahead of Dandong.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Dandong or Sinŭiju?
- Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Dandong is the larger of the two, with 2,188,436 people to 288,112 in Sinŭiju. 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 Dandong and Sinŭiju both currently sit at $0.
Settle it
Neither city is on the board. The first $1 behind either one decides which of them goes first.
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