Head to head
Pudong vs Sydney
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 5,638,830 in Sydney. 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 5,638,830 in Sydney. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Pudong nor Sydney has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
Two countries| Metric | Pudong | Sydney |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 5,681,512 | 5,638,830 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 22nd largest | 1st largest |
| Country | China | Australia |
| Region | Shanghai | New South Wales |
| National capital | No | No |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 3:48 AM · UTC+08:00 | 5:48 AM · UTC+10:00 |
| 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
7,881 km apartPudong and Sydney are 7,881 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Pudong is in China; Sydney is in Australia. Sydney keeps time 2 hours ahead of Pudong.
Pudong has 42,682 more people — 1.0× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Pudong or Sydney?
- Pudong is the larger city by population, with 5,681,512 people to 5,638,830 in Sydney — a difference of 42,682. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Pudong and Sydney?
- 7,881 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Pudong is in China and Sydney is in Australia. Sydney keeps time 2 hours ahead of Pudong.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Pudong or Sydney?
- 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 5,638,830 in Sydney. 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 Sydney both currently sit at $0.
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