Head to head
Faisalabad vs Dubai
Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Faisalabad is the larger of the two, with 3,800,193 people to 3,790,000 in Dubai. 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 Faisalabad is the larger of the two, with 3,800,193 people to 3,790,000 in Dubai. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Faisalabad nor Dubai has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
Two countries| Metric | Faisalabad | Dubai |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 3,800,193 | 3,790,000 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 4th largest | 1st largest |
| Country | Pakistan | United Arab Emirates |
| Region | Punjab | Dubai |
| National capital | No | No |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 12:48 AM · UTC+05:00 | 11:48 PM · UTC+04:00 |
| 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
1,876 km apartFaisalabad and Dubai are 1,876 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Faisalabad is in Pakistan; Dubai is in the United Arab Emirates. Dubai keeps time 1 hour behind Faisalabad.
Faisalabad has 10,193 more people — 1.0× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Faisalabad or Dubai?
- Faisalabad is the larger city by population, with 3,800,193 people to 3,790,000 in Dubai — a difference of 10,193. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Faisalabad and Dubai?
- 1,876 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Faisalabad is in Pakistan and Dubai is in the United Arab Emirates. Dubai keeps time 1 hour behind Faisalabad.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Faisalabad or Dubai?
- Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Faisalabad is the larger of the two, with 3,800,193 people to 3,790,000 in Dubai. 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 Faisalabad and Dubai both currently sit at $0.
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