Cubic mile
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A cubic mile (abbreviation: mi3[1]) is an imperial / U.S. customary (non-SI non-metric) unit of volume, used in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. It is defined as the volume of a cube with sides of 1 mile (5280 feet, 1760 yards, ≈1.609 kilometre) in length.
Symbols
There is no universally agreed symbol but the following are used:
- cubic mile
- cu mile
- cu mi
- mile/-3
- mi/-3
- mile^3
- mi^3
- mile³
- mi³
Conversions
1 cubic mile is equivalent to:
- 147,197,952,000 cubic feet
- 5,451,776,000 cubic yards
- 118,282,962,000 U.S. bushels
- 1,101,117,140,000 U.S. liquid gallons
- ≈26,217,074,761.905 crude barrels
- 3,379,200 acre-feet
- 4,168,181,825,440.579584 litres (exactly)
- 4,168,181,825.440579584 cubic metres
- 4.168181825440579584 cubic kilometres
See also
- 1 E+9 m³ for a comparison with other volumes
- Square mile
- Orders of magnitude (volume)
- Conversion of units
- Cube (arithmetic), cube root
- Cubic equation, cubic function
References
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