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Canada has the longest coastline in the world, with a total length of 243,042 kilometres (151,019 mi); [6] additionally, its border with the United States is the world's longest land border, stretching 8,891 kilometres (5,525 mi). [7] Three of Canada's Arctic islands, Baffin Island, Victoria Island and Ellesmere Island, are among the ten ...
Mount Fuji is 3.776 kilometres (2.346 mi) high. The kilometre (SI symbol: km) is a unit of length in the metric system equal to 1 000 meters (10 3 m). To help compare different orders of magnitude, this section lists lengths between 1 kilometer and 10 kilometers (10 3 and 10 4 meters).
Canada's annual average temperature over land has risen by 1.7 °C (3.1 °F), with changes ranging from 1.1 to 2.3 °C (2.0 to 4.1 °F) in various regions, since 1948. [117] The rate of warming has been higher across the North and in the Prairies. [ 130 ]
Yukon lies in the western portion of Northern Canada, while Nunavut is in the east. [55] All three territories combined are the most sparsely populated region in Canada, covering 3,921,739 km 2 (1,514,192 sq mi) in land area. [4] They are often referred to as a single region, the North, for organizational and economic purposes. [56]
From 1630 to 1718 a millia was 5,564 feet (1,696 metres), making a geographical league of four millias equal 22,256 feet (6,784 m or 3.663 modern nautical miles). But from 1718 through the 1830s the millia was defined as the equivalent of just over 5,210 feet, giving a shorter geographical league of just over 20,842 feet (6,353 m or 3.430 ...
When each equatorial degree was divided into 18 leagues, the geographical mile was equal to 1 / 54 degree or about 2.06 kilometres (1.28 mi); when divided into 20 leagues, the geographical mile was equal to 1 / 60 degree, approximating the values provided above; and when divided into 25 leagues, the geographical mile was equal ...
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.
The square kilometre (square kilometer in American spelling; symbol: km 2) is a multiple of the square metre, the SI unit of area or surface area. In the SI unit of area (m 2), 1 km 2 is equal to 1M(m 2). 1 km 2 is equal to: 1,000,000 square metres (m 2) 100 hectares (ha) It is also approximately equal to: 0.3861 square miles [2] 247.1 acres [3 ...