Head to head
Tehran vs Yantai
Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Tehran is the larger of the two, with 7,153,309 people to 7,102,100 in Yantai. 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 Tehran is the larger of the two, with 7,153,309 people to 7,102,100 in Yantai. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Tehran nor Yantai has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
Two countries| Metric | Tehran | Yantai |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 7,153,309 | 7,102,100 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 1st largest | 18th largest |
| Country | Iran | China |
| Region | Tehran | Shandong |
| National capital | Yes | No |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 11:18 PM · UTC+03:30 | 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
6,103 km apartTehran and Yantai are 6,103 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Tehran is in Iran; Yantai is in China. Yantai keeps time 4 hours 30 minutes ahead of Tehran.
Tehran has 51,209 more people — 1.0× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Tehran or Yantai?
- Tehran is the larger city by population, with 7,153,309 people to 7,102,100 in Yantai — a difference of 51,209. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Tehran and Yantai?
- 6,103 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Tehran is in Iran and Yantai is in China. Yantai keeps time 4 hours 30 minutes ahead of Tehran.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Tehran or Yantai?
- Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Tehran is the larger of the two, with 7,153,309 people to 7,102,100 in Yantai. 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 Tehran and Yantai both currently sit at $0.
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