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To help compare different orders of magnitude this page lists lengths starting at 106 m (1 Mm or 1,000 km).

Distances shorter than 106 m

Conversions

1 megametre is equal to:
* 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

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* 2,100 — 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)
* 5,650 km — Coastline of New Zealand
* 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
* 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
* 2,320 km — Diameter of Pluto
* 2,707 km — Diameter of Triton, largest moon of Neptune
* 3,000 km — Estimated diameter of the trans-Neptunian object , the largest TNO found to date
* 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

Distances longer than 107 m

See also

*Orders of magnitude (length)



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