Head to head
Qingdao vs Tehran
Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Qingdao is the larger of the two, with 7,172,451 people to 7,153,309 in Tehran. 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 Qingdao is the larger of the two, with 7,172,451 people to 7,153,309 in Tehran. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Qingdao nor Tehran has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
Two countries| Metric | Qingdao | Tehran |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 7,172,451 | 7,153,309 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 17th largest | 1st largest |
| Country | China | Iran |
| Region | Shandong | Tehran |
| National capital | No | Yes |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 3:48 AM · UTC+08:00 | 11:18 PM · UTC+03:30 |
| 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
6,072 km apartQingdao and Tehran are 6,072 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Qingdao is in China; Tehran is in Iran. Tehran keeps time 4 hours 30 minutes behind Qingdao.
Qingdao has 19,142 more people — 1.0× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Qingdao or Tehran?
- Qingdao is the larger city by population, with 7,172,451 people to 7,153,309 in Tehran — a difference of 19,142. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Qingdao and Tehran?
- 6,072 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Qingdao is in China and Tehran is in Iran. Tehran keeps time 4 hours 30 minutes behind Qingdao.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Qingdao or Tehran?
- Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Qingdao is the larger of the two, with 7,172,451 people to 7,153,309 in Tehran. 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 Qingdao and Tehran both currently sit at $0.
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