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For instance, it appears to compare different kind of roads in some publications as it had been computed on a five-year period between 1995 and 2000. [8] In the United States, it is computed per 100 million miles traveled, while internationally it is computed in 100 million or 1 billion kilometers traveled.
The "old English mile" of the medieval and early modern periods varied but seems to have measured about 1.3 international miles (2.1 km). [17] [18] The old English mile varied over time and location within England. [18] The old English mile has also been defined as 79,200 or 79,320 inches (1.25 or 1.2519 statute miles). [19]
Population density (people per km 2) by country. This is a list of countries and dependencies ranked by population density, sorted by inhabitants per square kilometre or square mile. The list includes sovereign states and self-governing dependent territories based upon the ISO standard ISO 3166-1.
(for comparison) 1 meridian minute: 1,853.181: Turkish (nautical) mile: Turkey: 1933: today: 1,855.4 (for comparison) 1 equatorial minute: Though the NM was defined on the basis of the minute, it varies from the equatorial minute, because at that time people could only estimate the circumference of the equator to be 40,000 km. 1,894.35: Ottoman ...
1.280 km – span of the Golden Gate Bridge (distance between towers) [139] 1.609 km – 1 statute mile; 1.852 km – 1 nautical mile, equal to 1 arcminute of latitude at the surface of the Earth [140] 1.991 km – span of the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge [141] 2.309 km – axial length of the Three Gorges Dam, the largest dam in the world located in ...
A nautical mile is a unit of length used in air, marine, and space navigation, and for the definition of territorial waters. [2] [3] [4] Historically, it was defined as the meridian arc length corresponding to one minute ( 1 / 60 of a degree) of latitude at the equator, so that Earth's polar circumference is very near to 21,600 nautical miles (that is 60 minutes × 360 degrees).
Mitchell Starc picked up career-best test figures of 6-48 as India was skittled out for 180 on the opening day of the second test against Australia on Friday. In reply, Australia finished on 86-1 ...
The length of the internationally agreed nautical mile is 1 852 m. The US adopted the international definition in 1954, having previously used the US nautical mile (1 853.248 m). [6] The UK adopted the international nautical mile definition in 1970, having previously used the UK Admiralty nautical mile (6 080 ft or 1 853.184 m).