Head to head
Nanjing vs Hangzhou
Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Nanjing is the larger of the two, with 9,314,685 people to 9,236,032 in Hangzhou. 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 Nanjing is the larger of the two, with 9,314,685 people to 9,236,032 in Hangzhou. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Nanjing nor Hangzhou has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
China| Metric | Nanjing | Hangzhou |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 9,314,685 | 9,236,032 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 11th largest | 12th largest |
| Country | China | China |
| Region | Jiangsu | Zhejiang |
| National capital | No | No |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 3:48 AM · UTC+08:00 | 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
237 km apartNanjing and Hangzhou are 237 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Both are in China. Hangzhou keeps time the same time as Nanjing.
Nanjing has 78,653 more people — 1.0× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Nanjing or Hangzhou?
- Nanjing is the larger city by population, with 9,314,685 people to 9,236,032 in Hangzhou — a difference of 78,653. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Nanjing and Hangzhou?
- 237 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Both cities are in China. Hangzhou keeps time the same time as Nanjing.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Nanjing or Hangzhou?
- Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Nanjing is the larger of the two, with 9,314,685 people to 9,236,032 in Hangzhou. 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 Nanjing and Hangzhou both currently sit at $0.
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