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kilometers to miles
kmmi
1 km 0.6214 mi
2 km 1.2427 mi
3 km 1.8641 mi
4 km 2.4855 mi
5 km 3.1069 mi
6 km 3.7282 mi
7 km 4.3496 mi
8 km 4.971 mi
9 km 5.5923 mi
10 km 6.2137 mi
11 km 6.8351 mi
12 km 7.4565 mi
13 km 8.0778 mi
14 km 8.6992 mi
15 km 9.3206 mi
16 km 9.9419 mi
17 km 10.5633 mi
18 km 11.1847 mi
19 km 11.806 mi
20 km 12.4274 mi

How to convert

1 kilometer (km) = 0.621371 mile (mi). Kilometer (km) is a unit of Length used in Metric system. Mile (mi) is a unit of Length used in Standard system.

Information, facts and references:

  • The Nile the longest river in the world. It is 6853 km (4258 mi) long. The Nile is shared by eleven countries: Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan, South Sudan, and Egypt.
  • The Mariana Trench is the deepest known part of the world's oceans. The trench is about 2,550 kilometres long and it reaches a maximum depth of 10.994 km
  • The Trans-Siberian Railway, a network of railways connecting Moscow with the Russian Far East is the longest railway in the world with a length of 9289 km (5,772 mi).
  • The equator of Earth is about 40,075 kilometres (24,901 miles) long.

Kilometer - Unit of Distance / Length

Unit Symbol/Abbreviation: km

Where the unit used in the World:

The kilometer is used as a unit used to measure distances or lengths.
It's a standard measure for travelled distances, geographical distances and maps in most countries excluding the USA and the United Kingdom where mile is still used for this purpose.
between geographical locations on land, and in most countries is the official unit for this purpose. Primary exceptions are the United Kingdom, Liberia, Myanmar and the United States of America, where the mile remains as standard as a part of imperial system.

Definition of the Unit:

The kilometer (kilometre in UK spelling) is a unit of length/distance in the metric system (SI Unit system) equivalent to one thousand meters.

1 km is equivalent to 0.62137 miles.

History of the Unit:

Although the meter was defined in 1799 in France, the kilometer was first adopted for everyday use by the Dutch in 1817 under local name of the mijl. The myriametre (10000 meters) and "lieues de Poste" (Postal leagues, 4288 meters) were preferred to the "kilometer" for everyday use in France in 19th century. In the mid 19th century the kilometer was already in everyday use in the Italy and in Netherlands and the myriametre was still in use in France. The CIPM (The International Committee for Weights and Measures) officially abolished the prefix "myria-" and the "myriametre" in 1935, leaving the kilometer as the recognised unit of length instead of myriametre.

Where it's used:

The kilometer is commonly used on road signs to indicate the distance to travel to a given location, on maps to indicate scale, for odometer indication in automotive industry. It is also the most popular unit for describing the distance between geographical points and locations.

Equivalents in other units and scales:

  • 1 km = 1000000 millimeters (mm)
  • 1 km = 100 000 centimeters (cm)
  • 1 km = 10000 decimeters (dm)
  • 1 km = 1000 meters (m)
  • 1 km = 3280.84 feet (ft)
  • 1 megameter = 1000 km
  • 1 gigameter = 1000000 km
  • Units of length in the metric SI system are based on multiples or fractions of a meter.
  • There are measurements of length/distance in the metric SI system greater than a kilometer that can be expressed in terms of kilometres.

1 km is equivalent to 0.621371 mi.

The kilometer is unit of length in the metric SI system and is equivalent to one thousand metres.




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