Head to head
Pudong vs Hongkou
Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Pudong is the larger of the two, with 5,681,512 people to 687,500 in Hongkou. 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 Pudong is the larger of the two, with 5,681,512 people to 687,500 in Hongkou. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Pudong nor Hongkou has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
China| Metric | Pudong | Hongkou |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 5,681,512 | 687,500 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 22nd largest | 264th largest |
| Country | China | China |
| Region | Shanghai | Shanghai |
| National capital | No | No |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 6:56 AM · UTC+08:00 | 6:56 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
2 km apartPudong and Hongkou are 2 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Both are in China. Hongkou keeps time the same time as Pudong.
Pudong has 4,994,012 more people — 8.3× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Pudong or Hongkou?
- Pudong is the larger city by population, with 5,681,512 people to 687,500 in Hongkou — a difference of 4,994,012. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Pudong and Hongkou?
- 2 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Both cities are in China. Hongkou keeps time the same time as Pudong.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Pudong or Hongkou?
- Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Pudong is the larger of the two, with 5,681,512 people to 687,500 in Hongkou. 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 Pudong and Hongkou both currently sit at $0.
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2Settle it
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