Head to head
Faisalabad vs Rawalpindi
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 3,357,612 in Rawalpindi. 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 3,357,612 in Rawalpindi. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Faisalabad nor Rawalpindi has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
Pakistan| Metric | Faisalabad | Rawalpindi |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 3,800,193 | 3,357,612 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 4th largest | 5th largest |
| Country | Pakistan | Pakistan |
| Region | Punjab | Punjab |
| National capital | No | No |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 6:49 AM · UTC+05:00 | 6:49 AM · UTC+05:00 |
| 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
243 km apartFaisalabad and Rawalpindi are 243 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Both are in Pakistan. Rawalpindi keeps time the same time as Faisalabad.
Faisalabad has 442,581 more people — 1.1× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Faisalabad or Rawalpindi?
- Faisalabad is the larger city by population, with 3,800,193 people to 3,357,612 in Rawalpindi — a difference of 442,581. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Faisalabad and Rawalpindi?
- 243 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Both cities are in Pakistan. Rawalpindi keeps time the same time as Faisalabad.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Faisalabad or Rawalpindi?
- 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 3,357,612 in Rawalpindi. 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 Rawalpindi both currently sit at $0.
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