Orders of magnitude (one cubic metre to one cubic kilometre)

The following is a table of objects with volumes or capacities of between one cubic metre and one cubic kilometre.

a cubic metre of concrete

a TEU container

an Olympic swimming pool

LZ 129 Hindenburg

Great Pyramid of Giza

The Three Gorges Dam

Sydney Harbour

volume (m^3)	example
1×10^0	one cubic metre, one kilolitre or one stère—volume of a large domestic fridge-freezer (external dimensions)
3.85×10^1	external volume a standard 20-foot ("TEU") cargo container, which has a capacity of 33.1 thousand cubic metres
7.7×10^1	external volume a standard 40-foot ("FEU") cargo container, which has a capacity of 67.5 thousand cubic metres
1.05×10^2	volume of a rear-engine Leyland Titan London double-decker bus
1.49×10^2	volume of any A Division New York City Subway car
1×10^3	one cubic decametre or one megalitre
1.233×10^3	one acre-foot
2.5×10^3	volume of an Olympic size swimming pool of minimal depth (50 m × 25 m × 2 m).
3.054×10^3	volume of each of the nine spheres of the Atomium in Brussels
1.13×10^4	gas volume in the first zeppelin LZ 1
1.1866×10^4	amount of concrete in Trbovlje Chimney
1.56×10^4	Quebec's 2001 output of maple syrup
5.0×10^4	typical volume of a large gasometer
8.5–9.9×10^4	volume of the Royal Albert Hall auditorium[1]
1.84×10^5	volume of gas in the USS Macon (ZRS-5) zeppelin
2.11890×10^5	volume of gas in the Hindenburg zeppelin
6.50×10^5	volume of crude oil that can be carried aboard the Knock Nevis supertanker
9.66×10^5	volume of Taipei 101's gross floor space[2]
1×10^6	one cubic hectometre, one gigalitre or one kilostère
1.4×10^6	volume the 1910 Lakeview Gusher oil spilt (the biggest oil gusher in US history)
1.5644×10^6	volume of concrete in the Panama Canal Locks
2.6006×10^6	volume of stone in the Great Pyramid of Giza
3×10^6	approximately amount of mud and clay that slid into the South Nation River valley as a landslide on 20 June 1993
3.33×10^6	volume of concrete in Hoover Dam
3.664883×10^6	volume of the NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building
8×10^6	volume of chalk excavated in the construction of the Channel Tunnel
1×10^7	volume of Chagan Lake, artificial lake created by nuclear explosion
1.7×10^7	volume of material in the Gatun Dam, completed in 1913
2.8×10^7	volume of concrete in the Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest concrete structure
4.3×10^7	volume of Aswan Dam
9×10^7	volume of gas required per day by India in 2005
1.01×10^8	volume of the Grimsel reservoir
1.73×10^8	volume of Lake Baldegg, Switzerland
2.05×10^8	volume of material excavated in the construction of the Panama Canal
2.2×10^8	volume of Lac de la Gruyère, Switzerland
2.85×10^8	volume of Lake Halwill, Switzerland
3.20–3.35×10^8	volume of the Great Wall of China
3–5×10^8	volume of all humans alive on the planet (based on an average mass of 40–70 kg per human)
4×10^8	predicted volume of natural gas required per day by India in 2025
5×10^8	one sydharb—volume of Sydney Harbour, Australia[3]
6.93×10^8	volume of Lake Murten, Switzerland
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References

1. Atwood, Robert (2006). Bears Can't Run Downhill, and 200 Dubious Pub Facts Explained. Ebury Press. p. 124. ISBN 0-09-191255-5.
2. 198000 square metres floor space from Structurae multiplied by the "Slab to Slab Height" of 4.20 metres from taipei-101.com.tw gives 831600 cubic metres. Floors one to eight can be approximated as 4300 square metres (from ) times 8 times 4.2 metres, or an additional 134400 cubic metres, giving an estimated 966000 cubic metres.
3. "Australian Conventional Units of Measurement in Water" (PDF). Australian Water Association. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 October 2005. Retrieved 10 March 2006.