Head to head
Seoul vs Tokyo
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 9,733,276 in Tokyo. 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 9,733,276 in Tokyo. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Seoul nor Tokyo has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
Two countries| Metric | Seoul | Tokyo |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 10,349,312 | 9,733,276 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 1st largest | 1st largest |
| Country | South Korea | Japan |
| Region | Seoul | Tokyo |
| National capital | Yes | Yes |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 4:48 AM · UTC+09:00 | 4:48 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
1,153 km apartSeoul and Tokyo are 1,153 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Seoul is in South Korea; Tokyo is in Japan. Tokyo keeps time the same time as Seoul.
Seoul has 616,036 more people — 1.1× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Seoul or Tokyo?
- Seoul is the larger city by population, with 10,349,312 people to 9,733,276 in Tokyo — a difference of 616,036. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Seoul and Tokyo?
- 1,153 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Seoul is in South Korea and Tokyo is in Japan. Tokyo keeps time the same time as Seoul.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Seoul or Tokyo?
- 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 9,733,276 in Tokyo. 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 Tokyo both currently sit at $0.
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6Settle it
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