Head to head
Shantou vs Los Angeles
Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Shantou is the larger of the two, with 3,838,900 people to 3,820,914 in Los Angeles. 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 Shantou is the larger of the two, with 3,838,900 people to 3,820,914 in Los Angeles. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Shantou nor Los Angeles has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
Two countries| Metric | Shantou | Los Angeles |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 3,838,900 | 3,820,914 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 40th largest | 2nd largest |
| Country | China | United States |
| Region | Guangdong | California |
| National capital | No | No |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 3:48 AM · UTC+08:00 | 12:48 PM · UTC-07:00 |
| 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
11,389 km apartShantou and Los Angeles are 11,389 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Shantou is in China; Los Angeles is in the United States. Los Angeles keeps time 15 hours behind Shantou.
Shantou has 17,986 more people — 1.0× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Shantou or Los Angeles?
- Shantou is the larger city by population, with 3,838,900 people to 3,820,914 in Los Angeles — a difference of 17,986. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Shantou and Los Angeles?
- 11,389 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Shantou is in China and Los Angeles is in the United States. Los Angeles keeps time 15 hours behind Shantou.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Shantou or Los Angeles?
- Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Shantou is the larger of the two, with 3,838,900 people to 3,820,914 in Los Angeles. 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 Shantou and Los Angeles both currently sit at $0.
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6Settle it
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