Head to head
Hanoi vs Taipei
Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Hanoi is the larger of the two, with 8,053,663 people to 7,871,900 in Taipei. 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 Hanoi is the larger of the two, with 8,053,663 people to 7,871,900 in Taipei. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Hanoi nor Taipei has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
Two countries| Metric | Hanoi | Taipei |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 8,053,663 | 7,871,900 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 2nd largest | 1st largest |
| Country | Vietnam | Taiwan |
| Region | Hanoi | Taiwan |
| National capital | Yes | Yes |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 2:48 AM · UTC+07:00 | 3:48 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
1,665 km apartHanoi and Taipei are 1,665 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Hanoi is in Vietnam; Taipei is in Taiwan. Taipei keeps time 1 hour ahead of Hanoi.
Hanoi has 181,763 more people — 1.0× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Hanoi or Taipei?
- Hanoi is the larger city by population, with 8,053,663 people to 7,871,900 in Taipei — a difference of 181,763. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Hanoi and Taipei?
- 1,665 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Hanoi is in Vietnam and Taipei is in Taiwan. Taipei keeps time 1 hour ahead of Hanoi.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Hanoi or Taipei?
- Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Hanoi is the larger of the two, with 8,053,663 people to 7,871,900 in Taipei. 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 Hanoi and Taipei both currently sit at $0.
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