Head to head
Pune vs Datong
Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Pune is the larger of the two, with 3,124,458 people to 3,105,591 in Datong. 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 Pune is the larger of the two, with 3,124,458 people to 3,105,591 in Datong. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Pune nor Datong has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
Two countries| Metric | Pune | Datong |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 3,124,458 | 3,105,591 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 9th largest | 50th largest |
| Country | India | China |
| Region | Maharashtra | Shanxi |
| National capital | No | No |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 1:18 AM · UTC+05:30 | 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
4,460 km apartPune and Datong are 4,460 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Pune is in India; Datong is in China. Datong keeps time 2 hours 30 minutes ahead of Pune.
Pune has 18,867 more people — 1.0× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Pune or Datong?
- Pune is the larger city by population, with 3,124,458 people to 3,105,591 in Datong — a difference of 18,867. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Pune and Datong?
- 4,460 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Pune is in India and Datong is in China. Datong keeps time 2 hours 30 minutes ahead of Pune.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Pune or Datong?
- Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Pune is the larger of the two, with 3,124,458 people to 3,105,591 in Datong. 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 Pune and Datong both currently sit at $0.
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