Head to head
Guangzhou vs Istanbul
Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Guangzhou is the larger of the two, with 16,096,724 people to 15,701,602 in Istanbul. 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 Guangzhou is the larger of the two, with 16,096,724 people to 15,701,602 in Istanbul. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Guangzhou nor Istanbul has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
Two countries| Metric | Guangzhou | Istanbul |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 16,096,724 | 15,701,602 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 4th largest | 1st largest |
| Country | China | Turkey |
| Region | Guangdong | Istanbul |
| National capital | No | No |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 8:20 AM · UTC+08:00 | 3:20 AM · 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
7,888 km apartGuangzhou and Istanbul are 7,888 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Guangzhou is in China; Istanbul is in Turkey. Istanbul keeps time 5 hours behind Guangzhou.
Guangzhou has 395,122 more people — 1.0× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Guangzhou or Istanbul?
- Guangzhou is the larger city by population, with 16,096,724 people to 15,701,602 in Istanbul — a difference of 395,122. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Guangzhou and Istanbul?
- 7,888 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Guangzhou is in China and Istanbul is in Turkey. Istanbul keeps time 5 hours behind Guangzhou.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Guangzhou or Istanbul?
- Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Guangzhou is the larger of the two, with 16,096,724 people to 15,701,602 in Istanbul. 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 Guangzhou and Istanbul both currently sit at $0.
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