Head to head
Xiamen vs Surat
Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Xiamen is the larger of the two, with 4,617,251 people to 4,591,246 in Surat. 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 Xiamen is the larger of the two, with 4,617,251 people to 4,591,246 in Surat. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Xiamen nor Surat has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
Two countries| Metric | Xiamen | Surat |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 4,617,251 | 4,591,246 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 27th largest | 8th largest |
| Country | China | India |
| Region | Fujian | Gujarat |
| National capital | No | No |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 3:48 AM · UTC+08:00 | 1:18 AM · UTC+05:30 |
| 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
4,632 km apartXiamen and Surat are 4,632 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Xiamen is in China; Surat is in India. Surat keeps time 2 hours 30 minutes behind Xiamen.
Xiamen has 26,005 more people — 1.0× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Xiamen or Surat?
- Xiamen is the larger city by population, with 4,617,251 people to 4,591,246 in Surat — a difference of 26,005. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Xiamen and Surat?
- 4,632 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Xiamen is in China and Surat is in India. Surat keeps time 2 hours 30 minutes behind Xiamen.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Xiamen or Surat?
- Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Xiamen is the larger of the two, with 4,617,251 people to 4,591,246 in Surat. 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 Xiamen and Surat both currently sit at $0.
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