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  2. List of political and geographic subdivisions by total area ...

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    Other divisions. 0.1 to 1,000,000+ square kilometers; 1,000,000+ square kilometers; Smaller divisions. 200,000+ square kilometers • 100,000 to 1,000,000 square ...

  3. Geographical distance - Wikipedia

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    The square root appearing above can be eliminated for such applications as ordering locations by distance in a database query. On the other hand, some methods for computing nearest neighbors, such as the vantage-point tree , require that the distance metric obey the triangle inequality , in which case the square root must be retained.

  4. Square kilometre - Wikipedia

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    The square kilometre (square kilometer in American spelling; symbol: km 2) is a multiple of the square metre, the SI unit of area or surface area. In the SI unit of area (m 2), 1 km 2 is equal to 1M(m 2). 1 km 2 is equal to: 1,000,000 square metres (m 2) 100 hectares (ha) It is also approximately equal to: 0.3861 square miles [2] 247.1 acres [3 ...

  5. List of political and geographic subdivisions by total area ...

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    50,000 to 100,000 square kilometers • 30,000 to 50,000 square kilometers • 20,000 to 30,000 square kilometers • 10,000 to 20,000 square kilometers; 7,000 to 10,000 square kilometers • 5,000 to 7,000 square kilometers • 3,000 to 5,000 square kilometers • 1,000 to 3,000 square kilometers; 250 to 1,000 square kilometers • 0.1 to 250 ...

  6. Nautical mile - Wikipedia

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    A nautical mile is a unit of length used in air, marine, and space navigation, and for the definition of territorial waters. [2] [3] [4] Historically, it was defined as the meridian arc length corresponding to one minute (⁠ 1 / 60 ⁠ of a degree) of latitude at the equator, so that Earth's polar circumference is very near to 21,600 nautical miles (that is 60 minutes × 360 degrees).

  7. Vincenty's formulae - Wikipedia

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    Vincenty's goal was to express existing algorithms for geodesics on an ellipsoid in a form that minimized the program length (Vincenty 1975a). His unpublished report (1975b) mentions the use of a Wang 720 desk calculator, which had only a few kilobytes of memory.

  8. List of conversion factors - Wikipedia

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    km/h ≡ 1 km/h = 2. 7 × 10 −1 m/s knot: kn ≡ 1 nmi/h = 1.852 km/h = 0.51 4 m/s knot (Admiralty) kn ≡ 1 NM (Adm)/h = 1.853 184 km/h [29] = 0.514 77 3 m/s mach number: M: Ratio of the speed to the speed of sound [note 1] in the medium (unitless). ≈ 340 m/s in air at sea level ≈ 295 m/s in air at jet altitudes metre per second (SI unit ...

  9. League (unit) - Wikipedia

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    Although most contemporary accounts used an Arabic mile of 6 444 feet (1,964 metres), which gave a Spanish league of the degree of 25,776 feet (7,857 metres or 4.242 modern nautical miles) others defined an Arabic mile as just 6,000 feet making a Spanish league of the degree 24,000 feet (or 7,315 metres, almost exactly 3.95 modern nautical miles).