1 metre

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Leonardo da Vinci drew the Vitruvian Man within a square of side 1.83 metres and a circle about 1.2 metres in radius

To help compare different orders of magnitude this page lists lengths between one metre and ten metres.

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1 metre is:

approximate height of the top part of a doorknob on a door
1.435 m — Standard gauge of railway track used by about 60% of railways in the world = 4' 8½"
2.77–3.44 m — wavelength of the broadcast radio FM band 87–108 MHz
3.05 m — The length of an old Mini
8.38 m — The length of a London Bus (Routemaster)

1 m — height of Homo floresiensis (the "Hobbit")
1.15 m — a pizote (mammal)
1.37 m — average height of an Andamanese person
1.63 m — (5 feet 4 inches) (or 64 inches) - height of average US female human as of 2002^[update] (source: US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)).
1.75 m — (5 feet 9 inches) - height of average US male human as of 2002^[update] (source: US CDC as per female above)
2.72 m — (8 feet 11 inches) - tallest known human being (Robert Wadlow)^[4]
3.63 m — the record wingspan for living birds (a Wandering Albatross)
5.20 m — height of a giraffe^[5]
5.5 m — height of a Baluchitherium, the largest land mammal ever lived
7 m — wingspan of Argentavis, the largest flying bird known
7.50 m — approximate length of the human gastrointestinal tract

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.

v d e Orders of magnitude for length in E notation
shorter than one metre:
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longer than 1 metre:
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