Orders of magnitude (one cubic metre to one cubic kilometre)

The following is a table of objects with volumes or capacities of between one cubic metre and one cubic kilometre.

a cubic metre of concrete

a TEU container

an Olympic swimming pool

LZ 129 Hindenburg

Great Pyramid of Giza

The Three Gorges Dam

Sydney Harbour

volume (m3)	example
1×100	one cubic metre, one kilolitre or one stère—volume of a large domestic fridge-freezer (external dimensions)
3.85×101	external volume a standard 20-foot ("TEU") cargo container, which has a capacity of 33.1 thousand cubic metres
7.7×101	external volume a standard 40-foot ("FEU") cargo container, which has a capacity of 67.5 thousand cubic metres
1.05×102	volume of a rear-engine Leyland Titan London double-decker bus
1.49×102	volume of any A Division New York City Subway car
1×103	one cubic decametre or one megalitre
1.233×103	one acre-foot
2.5×103	volume of an Olympic size swimming pool of minimal depth (50 m × 25 m × 2 m).
3.054×103	volume of each of the nine spheres of the Atomium in Brussels
1.13×104	gas volume in the first zeppelin LZ 1
1.1866×104	amount of concrete in Trbovlje Chimney
1.56×104	Quebec's 2001 output of maple syrup
5.0×104	typical volume of a large gasometer
8.5–9.9×104	volume of the Royal Albert Hall auditorium
1.84×105	volume of gas in the USS Macon (ZRS-5) zeppelin
2.11890×105	volume of gas in the Hindenburg zeppelin
6.50×105	volume of crude oil that can be carried aboard the Knock Nevis supertanker
9.66×105	volume of Taipei 101's gross floor space
1×106	one cubic hectometre, one gigalitre or one kilostère
1.4×106	volume the 1910 Lakeview Gusher oil spilt (the biggest oil gusher in US history)
1.5644×106	volume of concrete in the Panama Canal Locks
2.6006×106	volume of stone in the Great Pyramid of Giza
3×106	approximately amount of mud and clay that slid into the South Nation River valley as a landslide on 20 June 1993
3.33×106	volume of concrete in Hoover Dam
3.664883×106	volume of the NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building
8×106	volume of chalk excavated in the construction of the Channel Tunnel
1×107	volume of Chagan Lake, artificial lake created by nuclear explosion
1.7×107	volume of material in the Gatun Dam, completed in 1913
2.8×107	volume of concrete in the Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest concrete structure
4.3×107	volume of Aswan Dam
9×107	volume of gas required per day by India in 2005
1.01×108	volume of the Grimsel reservoir
1.73×108	volume of Lake Baldegg, Switzerland
2.05×108	volume of material excavated in the construction of the Panama Canal
2.2×108	volume of Lac de la Gruyère, Switzerland
2.85×108	volume of Lake Halwill, Switzerland
3.20–3.35×108	volume of the Great Wall of China
3–5×108	volume of all humans alive on the planet (based on an average mass of 40–70 kg per human)
4×108	predicted volume of natural gas required per day by India in 2025
5×108	one sydharb—volume of Sydney Harbour, Australia
6.93×108	volume of Lake Murten, Switzerland
← one cubic millimetre to one cubic metre       one cubic kilometre to one cubic megametre →

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