Head to head
Tainan vs Yongkang
Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Tainan is the larger of the two, with 1,856,642 people to 233,730 in Yongkang. 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 Tainan is the larger of the two, with 1,856,642 people to 233,730 in Yongkang. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Tainan nor Yongkang has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
Taiwan| Metric | Tainan | Yongkang |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 1,856,642 | 233,730 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 5th largest | 13th largest |
| Country | Taiwan | Taiwan |
| Region | Taiwan | Taiwan |
| National capital | No | No |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 6:56 AM · UTC+08:00 | 6:56 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
6 km apartTainan and Yongkang are 6 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Both are in Taiwan. Yongkang keeps time the same time as Tainan.
Tainan has 1,622,912 more people — 7.9× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Tainan or Yongkang?
- Tainan is the larger city by population, with 1,856,642 people to 233,730 in Yongkang — a difference of 1,622,912. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Tainan and Yongkang?
- 6 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Both cities are in Taiwan. Yongkang keeps time the same time as Tainan.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Tainan or Yongkang?
- Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Tainan is the larger of the two, with 1,856,642 people to 233,730 in Yongkang. 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 Tainan and Yongkang both currently sit at $0.
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4Settle it
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