1 kilometre

Mount Fuji is 3.776 kilometres (3,776 metres) high

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 (abbreviated as km) is equal to:

• 1,000 metres
• 0.621371 miles
• 1,093.61 yards
• 3,280.84 feet
• 39,370.1 inches
• 100,000 centimeters
• 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
• 1.609 km — 1 mile
• 1.852 km — 1 nautical mile, equal to 1 arc minute of latitude at the surface of the earth^[2]
• 1.991 km — Span of the Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge^[3]
• 2.309 km — Axial length of the Three Gorges Dam, the largest dam in the world^[4]
• 3.991 km — Length of the Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge, longest suspension bridge in the world as of December 2008^[update][5]
• 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][6]
• 5.727 km — Height of Cerro Aucanquilcha, highest road in the world, located in Chile^[7]

Nature

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• 1.637 km — deepest dive of Lake Baikal in Russia, the world's largest fresh water lake.^[8]
• 2.228 km — Height of Mount Kosciuszko, highest point in Australia
• 4.810 km — Height of Mont Blanc, highest peak in the Alps
• 4.884 km — Height of Carstensz Pyramid, highest peak in Oceania
• 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

See also

Notes