1 kilometre
Template:Orders of magnitude (length) imagemap human-scale
To help compare different orders of magnitude this page lists lengths between 1 kilometre and 10 kilometres (103 and 104 metres).
Distances shorter than 1 kilometre
Conversions
1 kilometre (unit symbol km) is equal to:
- 1,000 metres
- 0.621371 miles
- 1,093.61 yards
- 3,280.84 feet
- 39,370.1 inches
- 100,000 centimetres
- 1,000,000 millimetres
- Side of a square of area 1 km2.
- Radius of a circle of area π km2.
Human-defined scales and structures
- 1 km — Wavelength of the highest long wave radio frequency, 300 kHz[1]
- 1.280 km — Span of the Golden Gate Bridge (distance between towers)[2]
- 1.609 km — 1 mile
- 1.852 km — 1 nautical mile, equal to 1 arc minute of latitude at the surface of the earth[3]
- 1.991 km — Span of the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge[4]
- 2.309 km — Axial length of the Three Gorges Dam, the largest dam in the world[5]
- 3.991 km — Length of the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge, longest suspension bridge in the world as of December 2008[update][6]
- 5.072 km — Height of Tanggula Mountain Pass, below highest peak in the Tanggula Mountains, highest railway pass in the world as of August 2005[update][7]
- 5.727 km — Height of Cerro Aucanquilcha, highest road in the world, located in Chile[8]
- 98 airports have paved runways from 4 km to 5.5 km in length.
Geographical
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- 1.637 km — deepest dive of Lake Baikal in Russia, the world's largest fresh water lake.[9]
- 2.228 km — Height of Mount Kosciuszko, highest point in Australia[10]
- Most of Manhattan is from 3 to 4 km wide.
- 4.810 km — Height of Mont Blanc, highest peak in the Alps
- 4.884 km — Height of Carstensz Pyramid, highest peak in Oceania[11]
- 5.610 km — Height of Mount Damavand, highest peak in Iran
- 5.642 km — Height of Mount Elbrus, highest peak in Europe
- 5.895 km — Height of Mount Kilimanjaro, highest peak in Africa
- 6.081 km — Height of Mount Logan, highest peak in Canada
- 6.194 km — Height of Mount McKinley, highest peak in North America
- 6.959 km — Height of Aconcagua, highest peak in South America
- 7.5 km — Depth of Cayman Trench, deepest point in the Caribbean Sea
- 8.848 km — Height of Mount Everest, highest peak on Earth, on the border between Nepal and China
Astronomical
- 1 km - Diameter of 1620 Geographos
- 1 km — Very approximate size of the smallest known moons of Jupiter
- 1.4 km — Diameter of Dactyl, the first confirmed asteroid moon
- 4.8 km - Diameter of 5535 Annefrank, an inner belt asteroid
- 5 km - Diameter of 3753 Cruithne, one of the smallest asteroids
- 8 km — Diameter of Themisto, one of Jupiter's moons
- 8.6 km - Diameter of Callirrhoe, also known as Jupiter XVII
Distances longer than 10 kilometres
Notes
- ^ "long wave". Oxford Dictionaries. Retrieved 12 March 2011.
wavelength above one kilometre (and a frequency below 300 kHz)
- ^ "Golden Gate Bridge official website". Retrieved 10 June 2012.
- ^ "nautical mile". Merriam Webster. Retrieved 12 March 2011.
- ^ Akashi Kaikyo Bridge @ Everything2.com, Everything2, 2002-09-09, retrieved 2009-04-19
- ^ [1]
- ^ Jeffrey Friedl (2008-12-09), Supporting the Longest Suspension Bridge in the World, archived from the original on 2009-04-25, retrieved 2009-04-19
{{citation}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ New height of world's railway born in Tibet, Xinhua News Agency, 2005-08-24, archived from the original on 2009-04-25, retrieved 2009-04-19
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- ^ "Russians in landmark Baikal dive". BBC News. 29 July 2008. Retrieved 12 March 2011.
current record of 1,637m was set in Lake Baikal in the 1990s
- ^ "Kosciuszko National Park lookouts and scenery". Office of Environment & Heritage: NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service.
- ^ "Carstensz Pyramid details". Carstensz Pyramid Site.