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Although most contemporary accounts used an Arabic mile of 6 444 feet (1,964 metres), which gave a Spanish league of the degree of 25,776 feet (7,857 metres or 4.242 modern nautical miles) others defined an Arabic mile as just 6,000 feet making a Spanish league of the degree 24,000 feet (or 7,315 metres, almost exactly 3.95 modern nautical miles).
The 5K run is a long-distance road running competition over a distance of five kilometres (3.107 mi). Also referred to as the 5K road race, 5 km, or simply 5K, it is the shortest of the most common road running distances. It is usually distinguished from the 5000 metres track running event by stating the distance in kilometres, rather than metres.
kilometre (km) or kilometer is a metric unit used, outside the US, to measure the length of a journey; the international statute mile (mi) is used in the US; 1 mi = 1.609344 km; nautical mile is rarely used to derive units of transportation quantity.
After the 1889 metric conversion the Swedish mil is defined as exactly 10 kilometers. nymil – "new mile" from 1889, 10 km exactly. Commonly used to this day, only referred to as mil. kyndemil – the distance a torch will last, approx 16 km (9.9 mi). skogsmil, rast – distance between rests in the woods, approx. 5 km (3.1 mi).
The kos (kosh, krosh, koss) is a very ancient measure of distance, measuring about 2.25 miles or 3.7 km. [2] 1 murii = approx. 0.75 inch; 4 angul = 1 dharnugrah (bow grip) = 3 in; 8 angul = 1 dhanurmushti (fist with thumb raised) = 6 in; 12 angul = 1 vitastaa = 9 in; 2 vitastaa = 18 in; 1 haath = 1.5 ft. 1 dand or dhanush (bow) = 4 haath = 6 ft
Another conversion is based on the Mughal emperor Akbar, who standardized the unit to 5000 guz in the Ain-i-Akbari. The British in India standardized Akbar's guz to 33 inches (840 mm), making the kos approximately 4,191 metres (13,750 ft). [2] Another conversion suggested a kos to be approximately 2 English miles. [3]
Li or ri (Chinese: 里, lǐ, or 市里, shìlǐ), also known as the Chinese mile, [citation needed] is a traditional Chinese unit of distance. The li has varied considerably over time but was usually about one third of an English mile and now has a standardized length of a half- kilometer (500 meters or 1,640 feet or 0.311 miles ).
Originally a Persian unit of measurement, equivalent to the European league, known as parasang (4.8 or 5.6 km). It was redefined in Iran as 10 kilometres on 31 May 1926. [6] The older Iranian farsang survives regionally as farsakh-song. In Turkey there is a "light farsang" defined as 5 kilometres (3.1 mi), similar to the Scandinavian forest mile.