Head to head
Madrid vs Pyongyang
Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Madrid is the larger of the two, with 3,255,944 people to 3,222,000 in Pyongyang. 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 Madrid is the larger of the two, with 3,255,944 people to 3,222,000 in Pyongyang. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Madrid nor Pyongyang has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
Two countries| Metric | Madrid | Pyongyang |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 3,255,944 | 3,222,000 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 1st largest | 1st largest |
| Country | Spain | North Korea |
| Region | Madrid | Pyongyang |
| National capital | Yes | Yes |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 9:48 PM · UTC+02:00 | 4:48 AM · UTC+09:00 |
| 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
9,801 km apartMadrid and Pyongyang are 9,801 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Madrid is in Spain; Pyongyang is in North Korea. Pyongyang keeps time 7 hours ahead of Madrid.
Madrid has 33,944 more people — 1.0× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Madrid or Pyongyang?
- Madrid is the larger city by population, with 3,255,944 people to 3,222,000 in Pyongyang — a difference of 33,944. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Madrid and Pyongyang?
- 9,801 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Madrid is in Spain and Pyongyang is in North Korea. Pyongyang keeps time 7 hours ahead of Madrid.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Madrid or Pyongyang?
- Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Madrid is the larger of the two, with 3,255,944 people to 3,222,000 in Pyongyang. 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 Madrid and Pyongyang both currently sit at $0.
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6Settle it
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