Head to head
Seoul vs Daejeon
Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Seoul is the larger of the two, with 10,349,312 people to 1,441,203 in Daejeon. 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 Seoul is the larger of the two, with 10,349,312 people to 1,441,203 in Daejeon. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Seoul nor Daejeon has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
South Korea| Metric | Seoul | Daejeon |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 10,349,312 | 1,441,203 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 1st largest | 5th largest |
| Country | South Korea | South Korea |
| Region | Seoul | Daejeon |
| National capital | Yes | No |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 7:55 AM · UTC+09:00 | 7:55 AM · UTC+09:00 |
| 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
140 km apartSeoul and Daejeon are 140 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Both are in South Korea. Daejeon keeps time the same time as Seoul.
Seoul has 8,908,109 more people — 7.2× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Seoul or Daejeon?
- Seoul is the larger city by population, with 10,349,312 people to 1,441,203 in Daejeon — a difference of 8,908,109. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Seoul and Daejeon?
- 140 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Both cities are in South Korea. Daejeon keeps time the same time as Seoul.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Seoul or Daejeon?
- Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Seoul is the larger of the two, with 10,349,312 people to 1,441,203 in Daejeon. 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 Seoul and Daejeon both currently sit at $0.
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6Settle it
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