Head to head
Karachi vs Tianjin
Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Karachi is the larger of the two, with 11,624,219 people to 11,090,314 in Tianjin. 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 Karachi is the larger of the two, with 11,624,219 people to 11,090,314 in Tianjin. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Karachi nor Tianjin has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
Two countries| Metric | Karachi | Tianjin |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 11,624,219 | 11,090,314 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 2nd largest | 6th largest |
| Country | Pakistan | China |
| Region | Sindh | Tianjin |
| National capital | No | No |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 12:48 AM · UTC+05:00 | 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
4,922 km apartKarachi and Tianjin are 4,922 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Karachi is in Pakistan; Tianjin is in China. Tianjin keeps time 3 hours ahead of Karachi.
Karachi has 533,905 more people — 1.0× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Karachi or Tianjin?
- Karachi is the larger city by population, with 11,624,219 people to 11,090,314 in Tianjin — a difference of 533,905. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Karachi and Tianjin?
- 4,922 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Karachi is in Pakistan and Tianjin is in China. Tianjin keeps time 3 hours ahead of Karachi.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Karachi or Tianjin?
- Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Karachi is the larger of the two, with 11,624,219 people to 11,090,314 in Tianjin. 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 Karachi and Tianjin both currently sit at $0.
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