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Padang Panjang (sometimes written as Padangpanjang, and spelt as Padang Pandjang in Dutch East Indies era, lit. ' long field ', Jawi: ڤادڠ ڤنجڠ ), is a city located at in the cool highlands of West Sumatra, around 80 Km inland from the provincial capital Padang
As one degree is 1 / 360 of a circle, one minute of arc is 1 / 21600 of a circle – such that the polar circumference of the Earth would be exactly 21,600 miles. Gunter used Snellius's circumference to define a nautical mile as 6,080 feet, the length of one minute of arc at 48 degrees latitude.
With this value for R the meridian length of 1 degree of latitude on the sphere is 111.2 km (69.1 statute miles) (60.0 nautical miles). The length of one minute of latitude is 1.853 km (1.151 statute miles) (1.00 nautical miles), while the length of 1 second of latitude is 30.8 m or 101 feet (see nautical mile).
1.280 km – span of the Golden Gate Bridge (distance between towers) [138] 1.609 km – 1 statute mile; 1.852 km – 1 nautical mile, equal to 1 arcminute of latitude at the surface of the Earth [139] 1.991 km – span of the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge [140] 2.309 km – axial length of the Three Gorges Dam, the largest dam in the world located in ...
The actual length of the modern Great Wall is around 42,000 li (21,000 km or 13,000 mi), over 4 times the name's proverbially "immeasurable" length. [ citation needed ] The Chinese proverb appearing in chapter 64 of the Tao Te Ching and commonly rendered as "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step" in fact refers to a thousand ...
kilometre (km) or kilometer is a metric unit used, outside the US, to measure the length of a journey; the international statute mile (mi) is used in the US; 1 mi = 1.609344 km; nautical mile is rarely used to derive units of transportation quantity.
Parung Panjang is a town and an administrative district (Indonesian: kecamatan) in the Bogor Regency of West Java Province, Indonesia and thus part of Jakarta's metropolitan area. Parung Panjang District covers an area of 64.65 km 2 , and had a population of 110,004 at the 2010 Census [ 2 ] and 118,176 at the 2020 Census; [ 3 ] the official ...
An official estimate as of mid 2023 lists a population of 124,047, consisting of 61,949 males and 62,098 females. [1] The city covers an area of 25.24 km 2 . [ 4 ] It is located in the Minangkabau Highlands , 90 km by road from the West Sumatran capital city of Padang .