Head to head
Uppsala vs Linköping
Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Uppsala is the larger of the two, with 177,074 people to 166,673 in Linköping. 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 Uppsala is the larger of the two, with 177,074 people to 166,673 in Linköping. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Uppsala nor Linköping has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
Sweden| Metric | Uppsala | Linköping |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 177,074 | 166,673 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 4th largest | 5th largest |
| Country | Sweden | Sweden |
| Region | Uppsala | Östergötland |
| National capital | No | No |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 3:39 AM · UTC+02:00 | 3:39 AM · UTC+02:00 |
| 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
198 km apartUppsala and Linköping are 198 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Both are in Sweden. Linköping keeps time the same time as Uppsala.
Uppsala has 10,401 more people — 1.1× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Uppsala or Linköping?
- Uppsala is the larger city by population, with 177,074 people to 166,673 in Linköping — a difference of 10,401. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Uppsala and Linköping?
- 198 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Both cities are in Sweden. Linköping keeps time the same time as Uppsala.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Uppsala or Linköping?
- Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Uppsala is the larger of the two, with 177,074 people to 166,673 in Linköping. 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 Uppsala and Linköping both currently sit at $0.
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