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Orders of magnitude (length)
1 E-13 m 1 E-12 m 1 E-11 m 1 E-10 m 1 E-9 m 1 E-8 m 1 E-7 m 1 E-6 m 1 E-5 m 1 E-4 m 1 E-3 m 1 E-2 m 1 E-1 m 1 E0 m 1 E1 m 1 E2 m 1 E3 m 1 E4 m 1 E5 m 1 E6 m 1 E7 m 1 E8 m 1 E9 m 1 E10 m 1 E11 m 1 E12 m 1 E13 m 1 E14 m 1 E15 m 1 E16 m 1 E17 m 1 E18 m 1 E19 m 1 E20 m 1 E21 m 1 E22 m 1 E23 m 1 E24 m 1 E25 m 1 E26 m

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

Contents 1 Conversions 2 Human-built structures 2.1 Proposed 3 Sports 4 Nature 5 Astronomical 6 See also

[edit] Conversions

1 megametre is equal to:

• approximately 621.37 miles.
• Side of square with area 1,000,000 km²

[edit] 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

[edit] Proposed

• 2,100 km — Length of proposed gas pipeline from Iran to India via Pakistan

[edit] Sports

• 1,200 km — the length of the Paris-Brest-Paris bicycling event

[edit] 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

[edit] 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
• 2,707 km — Diameter of Triton, largest moon of Neptune
• 3,000 km — Estimated diameter of the minor planet Eris, the largest trans-Neptunian object 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

[edit] See also

• Orders of magnitude (length)