Head to head
Kolkata vs Xiamen
Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Kolkata is the larger of the two, with 4,631,392 people to 4,617,251 in Xiamen. 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 Kolkata is the larger of the two, with 4,631,392 people to 4,617,251 in Xiamen. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Kolkata nor Xiamen has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
Two countries| Metric | Kolkata | Xiamen |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 4,631,392 | 4,617,251 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 7th largest | 27th largest |
| Country | India | China |
| Region | West Bengal | Fujian |
| National capital | No | No |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 1:18 AM · UTC+05:30 | 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
3,032 km apartKolkata and Xiamen are 3,032 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Kolkata is in India; Xiamen is in China. Xiamen keeps time 2 hours 30 minutes ahead of Kolkata.
Kolkata has 14,141 more people — 1.0× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Kolkata or Xiamen?
- Kolkata is the larger city by population, with 4,631,392 people to 4,617,251 in Xiamen — a difference of 14,141. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Kolkata and Xiamen?
- 3,032 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Kolkata is in India and Xiamen is in China. Xiamen keeps time 2 hours 30 minutes ahead of Kolkata.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Kolkata or Xiamen?
- Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Kolkata is the larger of the two, with 4,631,392 people to 4,617,251 in Xiamen. 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 Kolkata and Xiamen both currently sit at $0.
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