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After the first use, the word can be abbreviated as "km". The measurement converter Template:Convert can be used to calculate the equivalent miles, but in the lede section of articles, hand-coded text is preferred to allow pop-up text from the lede to avoid showing "{{convert|...}}" in the pop-up description.
Metric prefixes; Text Symbol Factor or; yotta Y 10 24: 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000: zetta Z 10 21: 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000: exa E 10 18: 1 000 000 000 000 000 000: peta P 10 15: 1 000 000 000 000 000: tera T
Originally a Persian unit of measurement, equivalent to the European league, known as parasang (4.8 or 5.6 km). It was redefined in Iran as 10 kilometres on 31 May 1926. [6] The older Iranian farsang survives regionally as farsakh-song. In Turkey there is a "light farsang" defined as 5 kilometres (3.1 mi), similar to the Scandinavian forest mile.
A glacier, 3 nautical miles (5.6 km; 3.5 mi) long, flowing southeast from Bettle Peak to a juncture with the Blue Glacier southeast of Hannon Hill.Named in 1992 by US-ACAN after Larry Leon Amos, civil engineer, USGS; member of the USGS two man astronomic surveying team to South Pole Station and Byrd Station in the 1969-70 field season.
The Miranui flax mill was the only mill that operated a 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (5.6 km) long 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge tramway from the mill to the fields in the swamp. It purchased in 1907 a 5-ton steam locomotive from Bagnall and Co in England to haul the bespoke flax wagons.
4.1682 km 3 A cubic mile (abbreviation: cu mi or mi 3 [ 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 (1.6 km ) length, giving a volume of 1 cubic mile (4.2 km 3 ).
Miles per hour (mph, m.p.h., MPH, or mi/h) is a British imperial and United States customary unit of speed expressing the number of miles travelled in one hour. It is used in the United Kingdom , the United States , and a number of smaller countries, most of which are UK or US territories, or have close historical ties with the UK or US.
Mount Falla is a prominent conical mountain, 3,825 metres (12,549 ft) high, standing 3.5 nautical miles (6.5 km; 4.0 mi) northeast of Mount Stonehouse, between Berwick and Prebble [ 1 ] Exploration and name