Head to head
Ordos vs Dongsheng
Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Ordos is the larger of the two, with 2,153,638 people to 574,242 in Dongsheng. 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 Ordos is the larger of the two, with 2,153,638 people to 574,242 in Dongsheng. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Ordos nor Dongsheng has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
China| Metric | Ordos | Dongsheng |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 2,153,638 | 574,242 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 74th largest | 293rd largest |
| Country | China | China |
| Region | Inner Mongolia | Inner Mongolia |
| National capital | No | No |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 6:54 AM · UTC+08:00 | 6:54 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
29 km apartOrdos and Dongsheng are 29 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Both are in China. Dongsheng keeps time the same time as Ordos.
Ordos has 1,579,396 more people — 3.8× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Ordos or Dongsheng?
- Ordos is the larger city by population, with 2,153,638 people to 574,242 in Dongsheng — a difference of 1,579,396. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Ordos and Dongsheng?
- 29 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Both cities are in China. Dongsheng keeps time the same time as Ordos.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Ordos or Dongsheng?
- Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Ordos is the larger of the two, with 2,153,638 people to 574,242 in Dongsheng. 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 Ordos and Dongsheng both currently sit at $0.
Settle it
Neither city is on the board. The first $1 behind either one decides which of them goes first.
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