1 kilometre
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at scales within direct human experience, from the micrometric (10−6 m, top left) to the multi-kilometric (105 m, bottom right).
at scales within direct human experience, from the micrometric (10−6 m, top left) to the multi-kilometric (105 m, bottom right).
Mount Fuji is 3.776 kilometres (3,776 metres) high
To help compare different orders of magnitude this page lists lengths between 1 kilometre and 10 kilometres (103 and 104 metres).
Conversions
1 kilometre (unit symbol km) is equal to:
- 1,000 metres
- 0.621371 miles
- 1,093.61 yards
- 3,280.84 feet
- 39,370.1 inches
- 100,000 centimetres
- 1,000,000 millimetres
- Side of a square of area 1 km2.
- Radius of a circle of area π km2.
Human-defined scales and structures
- 1 km – wavelength of the highest long wave radio frequency, 300 kHz[1]
- 1.280 km – span of the Golden Gate Bridge (distance between towers)[2]
- 1.609 km – 1 mile
- 1.852 km – 1 nautical mile, equal to 1 arc minute of latitude at the surface of the earth[3]
- 1.991 km – span of the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge[4]
- 2.309 km – axial length of the Three Gorges Dam, the largest dam in the world[5]
- 3.991 km – length of the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge, longest suspension bridge in the world as of December 2008[update][6]
- 5.072 km – height of Tanggula Mountain Pass, below highest peak in the Tanggula Mountains, highest railway pass in the world as of August 2005[update][7]
- 5.727 km – height of Cerro Aucanquilcha, highest road in the world, located in Chile[8][not in citation given]
- 98 airports have paved runways from 4 km to 5.5 km in length.
Geographical
- 1.637 km – deepest dive of Lake Baikal in Russia, the world's largest fresh water lake.[9]
- 2.228 km – height of Mount Kosciuszko, highest point in Australia[10]
- Most of Manhattan is from 3 to 4 km wide.
- 4.810 km – height of Mont Blanc, highest peak in the Alps
- 4.884 km – height of Carstensz Pyramid, highest peak in Oceania[11]
- 5.610 km – height of Mount Damavand, highest peak in Iran
- 5.642 km – height of Mount Elbrus, highest peak in Europe
- 5.895 km – height of Mount Kilimanjaro, highest peak in Africa
- 6.081 km – height of Mount Logan, highest peak in Canada
- 6.194 km – height of Denali, highest peak in North America
- 6.959 km – height of Aconcagua, highest peak in South America
- 7.5 km – depth of Cayman Trench, deepest point in the Caribbean Sea
- 8.848 km – height of Mount Everest, highest peak on Earth, on the border between Nepal and China
Astronomical
- 1 km – diameter of 1620 Geographos
- 1 km – very approximate size of the smallest known moons of Jupiter
- 1.4 km – diameter of Dactyl, the first confirmed asteroid moon
- 4.8 km – diameter of 5535 Annefrank, an inner belt asteroid
- 5 km – diameter of 3753 Cruithne, one of the smallest asteroids
- 8 km – diameter of Themisto, one of Jupiter's moons
- 8.6 km – diameter of Callirrhoe, also known as Jupiter XVII
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