Head to head
Shanghai vs Beijing
Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Shanghai is the larger of the two, with 24,874,500 people to 18,960,744 in Beijing. 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 Shanghai is the larger of the two, with 24,874,500 people to 18,960,744 in Beijing. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Shanghai nor Beijing has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
China| Metric | Shanghai | Beijing |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 24,874,500 | 18,960,744 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 1st largest | 2nd largest |
| Country | China | China |
| Region | Shanghai | Beijing |
| National capital | No | Yes |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 3:48 AM · UTC+08:00 | 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
1,068 km apartShanghai and Beijing are 1,068 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Both are in China. Beijing keeps time the same time as Shanghai.
Shanghai has 5,913,756 more people — 1.3× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Shanghai or Beijing?
- Shanghai is the larger city by population, with 24,874,500 people to 18,960,744 in Beijing — a difference of 5,913,756. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Shanghai and Beijing?
- 1,068 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Both cities are in China. Beijing keeps time the same time as Shanghai.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Shanghai or Beijing?
- Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Shanghai is the larger of the two, with 24,874,500 people to 18,960,744 in Beijing. 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 Shanghai and Beijing both currently sit at $0.
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