Head to head
Surat vs Yangzhou
Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Surat is the larger of the two, with 4,591,246 people to 4,559,797 in Yangzhou. 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 Surat is the larger of the two, with 4,591,246 people to 4,559,797 in Yangzhou. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Surat nor Yangzhou has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
Two countries| Metric | Surat | Yangzhou |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 4,591,246 | 4,559,797 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 8th largest | 28th largest |
| Country | India | China |
| Region | Gujarat | Jiangsu |
| National capital | No | No |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 1:18 AM · UTC+05:30 | 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
4,751 km apartSurat and Yangzhou are 4,751 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Surat is in India; Yangzhou is in China. Yangzhou keeps time 2 hours 30 minutes ahead of Surat.
Surat has 31,449 more people — 1.0× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Surat or Yangzhou?
- Surat is the larger city by population, with 4,591,246 people to 4,559,797 in Yangzhou — a difference of 31,449. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Surat and Yangzhou?
- 4,751 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Surat is in India and Yangzhou is in China. Yangzhou keeps time 2 hours 30 minutes ahead of Surat.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Surat or Yangzhou?
- Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Surat is the larger of the two, with 4,591,246 people to 4,559,797 in Yangzhou. 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 Surat and Yangzhou both currently sit at $0.
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