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A cubic mile (abbreviation: cu mi or mi³^[1]) is an imperial and US customary (non-SI non-metric) unit of volume, used in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. It is defined as the volume of a cube with sides of 1 mile (5280 feet, 1760 yards or ~1.609 kilometres) in length.

Symbols

There is no universally agreed symbol but the following are used.

cubic mile
cu mile
cu mi
mile/-3
mi/-3
mile^3
mi^3
mile³
mi³

Conversions

See also

Square mile
for a comparison with other volumes
- Orders of magnitude (one cubic metre to one cubic kilometre)
- Orders_of_magnitude_(one_cubic_kilometre_to_one_cubic_megametre)
Conversion of units#Volume
Cube (arithmetic)

ReferencesOrders of magnitude (volume)

^ Suplee, Curtis (2009-07-02). "Special Publication 811". Retrieved 2016-10-05.

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