Head to head
Datong vs Bursa
Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Datong is the larger of the two, with 3,105,591 people to 3,101,833 in Bursa. 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 Datong is the larger of the two, with 3,105,591 people to 3,101,833 in Bursa. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Datong nor Bursa has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
Two countries| Metric | Datong | Bursa |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 3,105,591 | 3,101,833 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 50th largest | 3rd largest |
| Country | China | Turkey |
| Region | Shanxi | Bursa Province |
| National capital | No | No |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 3:48 AM · UTC+08:00 | 10:48 PM · UTC+03:00 |
| 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
6,859 km apartDatong and Bursa are 6,859 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Datong is in China; Bursa is in Turkey. Bursa keeps time 5 hours behind Datong.
Datong has 3,758 more people — 1.0× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Datong or Bursa?
- Datong is the larger city by population, with 3,105,591 people to 3,101,833 in Bursa — a difference of 3,758. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Datong and Bursa?
- 6,859 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Datong is in China and Bursa is in Turkey. Bursa keeps time 5 hours behind Datong.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Datong or Bursa?
- Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Datong is the larger of the two, with 3,105,591 people to 3,101,833 in Bursa. 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 Datong and Bursa both currently sit at $0.
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6Settle it
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