Head to head
Rio de Janeiro vs Suzhou
Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Rio de Janeiro is the larger of the two, with 6,747,815 people to 6,715,559 in Suzhou. 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 Rio de Janeiro is the larger of the two, with 6,747,815 people to 6,715,559 in Suzhou. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Rio de Janeiro nor Suzhou has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
Two countries| Metric | Rio de Janeiro | Suzhou |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 6,747,815 | 6,715,559 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 2nd largest | 20th largest |
| Country | Brazil | China |
| Region | Rio de Janeiro | Jiangsu |
| National capital | No | No |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 4:48 PM · UTC-03:00 | 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
18,161 km apartRio de Janeiro and Suzhou are 18,161 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Rio de Janeiro is in Brazil; Suzhou is in China. Suzhou keeps time 11 hours ahead of Rio de Janeiro.
Rio de Janeiro has 32,256 more people — 1.0× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Rio de Janeiro or Suzhou?
- Rio de Janeiro is the larger city by population, with 6,747,815 people to 6,715,559 in Suzhou — a difference of 32,256. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Rio de Janeiro and Suzhou?
- 18,161 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Rio de Janeiro is in Brazil and Suzhou is in China. Suzhou keeps time 11 hours ahead of Rio de Janeiro.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Rio de Janeiro or Suzhou?
- Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Rio de Janeiro is the larger of the two, with 6,747,815 people to 6,715,559 in Suzhou. 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 Rio de Janeiro and Suzhou both currently sit at $0.
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