Head to head
Taiyuan vs Zhengzhou
Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Taiyuan is the larger of the two, with 4,303,673 people to 4,253,913 in Zhengzhou. 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 Taiyuan is the larger of the two, with 4,303,673 people to 4,253,913 in Zhengzhou. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Taiyuan nor Zhengzhou has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
China| Metric | Taiyuan | Zhengzhou |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 4,303,673 | 4,253,913 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 33rd largest | 34th largest |
| Country | China | China |
| Region | Shanxi | Henan |
| National capital | No | No |
| 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
359 km apartTaiyuan and Zhengzhou are 359 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Both are in China. Zhengzhou keeps time the same time as Taiyuan.
Taiyuan has 49,760 more people — 1.0× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Taiyuan or Zhengzhou?
- Taiyuan is the larger city by population, with 4,303,673 people to 4,253,913 in Zhengzhou — a difference of 49,760. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Taiyuan and Zhengzhou?
- 359 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Both cities are in China. Zhengzhou keeps time the same time as Taiyuan.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Taiyuan or Zhengzhou?
- Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Taiyuan is the larger of the two, with 4,303,673 people to 4,253,913 in Zhengzhou. 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 Taiyuan and Zhengzhou both currently sit at $0.
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