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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).
Distances shorter than 1 kilometre
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Conversions
1 kilometre (abbreviated as km) is equal to:
- 1,000 metres
- 0.621371 miles
- 1,093.61 yards
- 3,280.84 feet
- 6,561.58 inches
- 1,000,000 centimeters
- 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
- 1.852 km — 1 nautical mile, equal to 1 arc minute of latitude at the surface of the earth[2]
- 1.991 km — Span of the Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge[3]
- 2.309 km — Axial length of the Three Gorges Dam, the largest dam in the world[4]
- 3.991 km — Length of the Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge, longest suspension bridge in the world as of December 2008[update][5]
- 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][6]
- 5.727 km — Height of Cerro Aucanquilcha, highest road in the world, located in Chile[7]
Nature
- 1.637 km — deepest dive of Lake Baikal in Russia, the world's largest fresh water lake.[8]
- 2.228 km — Height of Mount Kosciuszko, highest point in Australia
- 4.810 km — Height of Mont Blanc, highest peak in the Alps
- 4.884 km — Height of Carstensz Pyramid, highest peak in Oceania
- 5.604 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 Mount McKinley, 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
Distances longer than 10 kilometres
See also
Click on the thumbnail image to jump to the desired Human-scale order of length magnitude article: top-left is 1E-6 m, lower-right is 1E5 m.Orders of magnitude for length in E notation shorter than one metre: <−24 −24 −23 −22 −21 −20 −19 −18 −17 −16 −15 −14 −13 −12 −11 −10 −9 −8 −7 −6 −5 −4 −3 −2 −1 0 longer than 1 metre: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Notes
- ^ "long wave". Oxford Dictionaries. http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/long+wave. Retrieved 12 March 2011. "wavelength above one kilometre (and a frequency below 300 kHz)"
- ^ "nautical mile". Merriam Webster. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nautical%20mile. Retrieved 12 March 2011.
- ^ Akashi Kaikyo Bridge @ Everything2.com, Everything2, 2002-09-09, http://everything2.com/title/Akashi%2520Kaikyo%2520Bridge, retrieved 2009-04-19
- ^ [1]
- ^ Jeffrey Friedl (2008-12-09), Supporting the Longest Suspension Bridge in the World, archived from the original on 2009-04-25, http://www.webcitation.org/5gJ2fhJU2, retrieved 2009-04-19
- ^ New height of world's railway born in Tibet, Xinhua News Agency, 2005-08-24, archived from the original on 2009-04-25, http://www.webcitation.org/5gJ2g3SWw, retrieved 2009-04-19
- ^ [2]
- ^ "Russians in landmark Baikal dive". BBC News. 29 July 2008. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7530230.stm. Retrieved 12 March 2011. "current record of 1,637m was set in Lake Baikal in the 1990s"
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