Cubic mile

"MI3" redirects here. For other uses, see MI-3 (disambiguation).

A cubic mile is an imperial / U.S. 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, ≈1.609 kilometre) 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 is equivalent to:

• 147,197,952,000 cubic feet
• 5,451,776,000 cubic yards
• 118,282,962,000 U.S. bushels
• 1,101,117,140,000 U.S. liquid gallons
• ≈26,217,074,761.905 crude barrels
• 3,379,200 acre feet
• 4,168,181,825,440.579584 litres (exactly)
• 4,168,181,825.440579584 cubic metres
• 4.168181825440579584 cubic kilometres

See also

• 1 E+9 m³ for a comparison with other volumes
• Square mile
• Orders of magnitude (volume)
• Conversion of units
• Cube (arithmetic), cube root
  • Cubic equation, cubic function