Cubic mile

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A cubic mile (abbreviation: cu mi or mi3[1]) is an imperial and US customary (non-SI non-metric) unit of volume, used in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. It is defined as the volume of a cube with sides of 1 mile (5280 feet, 1760 yards or ~1.609 kilometres) in length.

Symbols

There is no universally agreed symbol but the following are used.

  • cubic mile
  • cu mile
  • cu mi
  • mile/-3
  • mi/-3
  • mile^3
  • mi^3
  • mile3
  • mi3

Conversions

1 cubic mile  512  cubic furlongs
5451776000  cubic yards
147197952000  cubic feet
3379200  acre-feet
4.168181825440579584  cubic kilometres
≈  916871822916  imperial gallons
≈  1101117140000  US liquid gallons
≈  114608977865  imperial bushels
≈  118282962000  US bushels
≈  26217074762  crude barrels

See also

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