Head to head
Datong vs Ulanqab
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 550,231 in Ulanqab. 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 550,231 in Ulanqab. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Datong nor Ulanqab has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
China| Metric | Datong | Ulanqab |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 3,105,591 | 550,231 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 50th largest | 299th largest |
| Country | China | China |
| Region | Shanxi | Inner Mongolia |
| National capital | No | No |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 6:51 AM · UTC+08:00 | 6:51 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
101 km apartDatong and Ulanqab are 101 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Both are in China. Ulanqab keeps time the same time as Datong.
Datong has 2,555,360 more people — 5.6× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Datong or Ulanqab?
- Datong is the larger city by population, with 3,105,591 people to 550,231 in Ulanqab — a difference of 2,555,360. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Datong and Ulanqab?
- 101 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Both cities are in China. Ulanqab keeps time the same time as Datong.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Datong or Ulanqab?
- 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 550,231 in Ulanqab. 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 Ulanqab both currently sit at $0.
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2Settle it
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