Head to head
Dongguan vs Cairo
Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Dongguan is the larger of the two, with 9,644,871 people to 9,606,916 in Cairo. 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 Dongguan is the larger of the two, with 9,644,871 people to 9,606,916 in Cairo. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Dongguan nor Cairo has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
Two countries| Metric | Dongguan | Cairo |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 9,644,871 | 9,606,916 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 8th largest | 1st largest |
| Country | China | Egypt |
| Region | Guangdong | Cairo |
| National capital | No | Yes |
| 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
8,067 km apartDongguan and Cairo are 8,067 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Dongguan is in China; Cairo is in Egypt. Cairo keeps time 5 hours behind Dongguan.
Dongguan has 37,955 more people — 1.0× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Dongguan or Cairo?
- Dongguan is the larger city by population, with 9,644,871 people to 9,606,916 in Cairo — a difference of 37,955. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Dongguan and Cairo?
- 8,067 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Dongguan is in China and Cairo is in Egypt. Cairo keeps time 5 hours behind Dongguan.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Dongguan or Cairo?
- Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Dongguan is the larger of the two, with 9,644,871 people to 9,606,916 in Cairo. 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 Dongguan and Cairo both currently sit at $0.
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