1 kilometre

A clickable mosaic of objects
at scales within direct human experience, from the micrometric (10⁻⁶ m, top left) to the multi-kilometric (10⁵ m, bottom right).

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 (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^[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^[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

• 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 Denali, 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

1. "long wave". Oxford Dictionaries. Retrieved 12 March 2011. wavelength above one kilometre (and a frequency below 300 kHz)
2. "Golden Gate Bridge official website". Retrieved 10 June 2012.
3. "nautical mile". Merriam Webster. Retrieved 12 March 2011.
4. Akashi Kaikyo Bridge @ Everything2.com, Everything2, 2002-09-09, retrieved 2009-04-19
5. "Three Gorges Dam". encyclopedia.com. Cengage Learning.
6. 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
7. 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
8. "GeoNames".
9. "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
10. "Kosciuszko National Park lookouts and scenery". Office of Environment & Heritage: NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service.
11. "Carstensz Pyramid details". Carstensz Pyramid Site.