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orders of magnitude this page lists lengths starting at 106 m (1 Mm or 1,000 km).
Distances shorter than 106 m
Distances shorter than 106 m
Conversions
1 megametre is equal to:- 1 E+6 m
- approximately 621.37 miles
- Side of square with area 1,000,000 km²
Human-built structures
- 2,451 km — Length of the Alaska Highway
- 3,069 km — Length of Interstate 95 (from Houlton, Maine to Miami, Florida)
- 3,846 km — Length of U.S. Route 1 (from Fort Kent, Maine to Key West, Florida)
- 5,007 km — Estimated length of Interstate 90 (Seattle, Washington to Boston, Massachusetts)
- 6,400 km — Length of the Great Wall of China
- 7,821 km — Length of the Trans-Canada Highway, the world's longest national highway (from Victoria, British Columbia to St. John's, Newfoundland)
- 9,289 km — Length of the Trans-Siberian railway
Proposed
- 2,100 km — Length of proposed gas pipeline from Iran to India via Pakistan
Sports
- 1,200 km — the length of the Paris-Brest-Paris bicycling event
Nature
- 2,000 km — Distance from Beijing to Hong Kong as the crow flies
- 2,800 km — Narrowest width of Atlantic Ocean (Brazil-West Africa)
- 2,850 km — Length of the Danube river
- 2,205 km — Length of Sweden's total land boundaries
- 2,515 km — Length of Norway's total land boundaries
- 3,690 km — Length of the Volga river, longest in Europe
- 4,350 km — Length of the Huang He
- 4,715 km — Length of the Nile
- 4,800 km — Widest width of Atlantic Ocean (U.S.-Northern Africa)
- 5,100 km — Distance from Dublin to New York as the crow flies
- 6,270 km — Length of the Mississippi-Missouri River system
- 6,380 km — Length of the Yangtze River
- 6,762 km — Length of the Amazon system, longest on Earth
- 8,200 km — Distance from Dublin to San Francisco as the crow flies
Astronomical
- 1,000 km — Estimated shortest axis of trans-Neptunian object 2003 EL61
- 1,186 km — Diameter of Charon, the largest moon of Pluto
- 1,280 km — Diameter of the trans-Neptunian object 50000 Quaoar
- 1,436 km — Diameter of Iapetus, one of Saturn's major moons
- 1,578 km — Diameter of Titania, the largest of Uranus' moons
- 1,960 km — Estimated longest axis of 2003 EL61
- 2,320 km — Diameter of Pluto
- 2,400 km — Diameter of the dwarf planet Eris, the largest trans-Neptunian object found to date
- 2,707 km — Diameter of Triton, largest moon of Neptune
- 3,122 km — Diameter of Europa, the smallest Galilean satellite of Jupiter
- 3,475 km — Diameter of Earth's Moon
- 3,643 km — Diameter of Io, a moon of Jupiter
- 4,821 km — Diameter of Callisto, a moon of Jupiter
- 4,879 km — Diameter of Mercury
- 5,150 km — Diameter of Titan, the largest moon of Saturn
- 5,262 km — Diameter of Jupiter's moon Ganymede, the largest moon in the solar system
- 6,366 km — Radius of Earth
- 6,792 km — Diameter of Mars
See also
List of orders of magnitude for length
Factor (m) Multiple Value Item
10−35 1.610−35 m Planck length; size of a string; lengths smaller than this do not make any physical sense, according to current theories of physics
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Factor (m) Multiple Value Item
10−35 1.610−35 m Planck length; size of a string; lengths smaller than this do not make any physical sense, according to current theories of physics
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- 1.6 × 10−35 metres = the Planck length (lengths smaller than this do not make any physical sense, according to current theories of physics)
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Distances shorter than 10 ym
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- 10 ym till 100 yoctometres range
See also
- Yoctometre
- Orders of magnitude (length)
References
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Distances shorter than 100 ym
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- 100 yoctometres till 1 zeptometre range
See also
- Yoctometre
- Zeptometre
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Distances shorter than 1 zm
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- 1 zm = 1 zeptometre = 1,000 yoctometres
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- Zeptometre
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Distances shorter than 10 zm
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- 10 zm till 100 zeptometres range
See also
- Zeptometre
- Orders of magnitude (length)
References
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Distances shorter than 100 zm
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- 100 zeptometres till 1 attometre range
See also
- Zeptometre
- Attometre
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Distances shorter than 1 am
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- 1 am = 1 attometre = 1,000 zeptometres
- 1 am — sensitivity of the LIGO detector for gravitational waves
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- Attometre
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Distances shorter than 10 am
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- 10 am till 100 attometres range
See also
- Attometre
- Orders of magnitude (length)
References
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Distances shorter than 100 am
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- 100 attometres till 1 femtometre range
See also
- Attometre
- Femtometre
- Orders of magnitude (length)
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Distances shorter than 1 fm
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- 1 fm = 1 femtometre = 1,000 attometres
- 1.5 fm — diameter of the proton
- 2.81794 fm — classical electron radius
See also
- Femtometre
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Distances shorter than 10 fm
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- 10 fm till 100 femtometres range
See also
- Femtometre
- Orders of magnitude (length)
References
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Distances shorter than 100 fm
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- 100 femtometres till 1 picometre range
See also
- Femtometre
- Picometre
- Orders of magnitude (length)
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Distances shorter than 1 pm
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- 1 pm = 1 picometre = 1,000 femtometres
- 2.4 pm — The compton wavelength of the electron.
- 5 pm — shorter X-ray wavelengths (approx.
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Distances shorter than 10 pm
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- 26 pm — radius of hydrogen atom
- 31 pm — radius of helium atom
See also
- Orders of magnitude (length)
References
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Distances shorter than 100 pm
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- 100 pm = 1 Ångström
- 100 pm — covalent radius of sulfur atom
- 126 pm — covalent radius of ruthenium atom
- 135 pm — covalent radius of technetium atom
- 153 pm — covalent radius of silver atom
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Distances shorter than 1 nm
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- 1 nm = 1 nanometer = 1000 picometers = 10 Ångströms
- is roughly the length of a sucrose molecule, calculated by Albert Einstein.
- 1.
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Distances shorter than 10 nm
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- 20 nm — width of bacterial flagellum
- 40 nm — extreme ultraviolet wavelength
- 65 nm — size of the smallest transistors in a microprocessor produced in 2006.
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Distances shorter than 100 nm
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- 100 nm — greatest particle size that can fit through a surgical mask
- 120 nm — greatest particle size that can fit through a ULPA filter
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Distances shorter than 1 µm
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- 1 µm is equal to
- the side of square of area 10-12 m²,
- edge of cube of volume 1 fL.
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Distances shorter than 10 µm
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- 10 µm — width of cotton fibre
- 10-24 µm — dust mite excreta ¹
- 10.6 µm — wavelength of light emitted by a carbon dioxide laser
- 15 µm — width of silk fibre
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Distances shorter than 100 µm
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- 100 micrometre is equal to
- 1/10th of a millimetre,
- 0.00394 inches.
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Distances shorter than 1 mm
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- 1.0 mm is equal to
- 1/1000th of a metre
- 0.
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Distances shorter than 1 cm
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- 1.0 cm is equal to
- 10 millimeters
- .39 inches
- edge of square of area 1 cm2
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Distances shorter than 10 cm
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Conversions
10 cm is equal to- 1 decimetre,
- 100 millimetres,
- 3.9 inches,
- a side of a square of area 0.01 m²
- edge of cube of volume 1 litre
Wavelengths
- 10.
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Distances shorter than 1 m
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Conversions
1 metre is:- 100 centimetres
- 1000 millimetres
- 39.37 inches
- 3.28 feet
- side of square with area 1 m²
- edge of cube with surface area 6 m² and volume 1 m³
- radius of circle with area 3.
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Distances shorter than 10 m
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Conversions
10 m is equal to:- 1 decametre
- 1,000 centimetres
- 10,000 millimetres
- 32.8 feet
- side of square with area 100 m²
Wavelengths
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Distances shorter than 100 m
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Conversions
100 m is equal to:- 328 feet
- one side of a 1 hectare square
- a fifth of a modern li, a Chinese unit of measurement
- 1 hectometre
Wavelengths
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Distances shorter than 1 km
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Conversions
1,000 meters is equal to:- 1 kilometer
- 0.621371 miles
- 1,093.61 yards
- 3,280.84 feet
- Side of a square of area 1 km².
- Radius of a circle of area 3.14 π km².
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Distances shorter than 10 km
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Conversions
10 km is equal to:- 10,000 metres
- 6.2 miles
- 1 mil, unit of measure commonly used in Norway and Sweden
- 1 peninkulma, unit of measure commonly used in Finland; earlier peninkulma was 10.
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