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Meters are part of the metric system which is a based ten system. The basic unit is the meter and then all the other units are based off of that. Kilo stands for thousand so it is equivilant to one thousand meters. There is also the dekameter, the decimeter, centimeter, etc. A centimeter is onehundredth of a meter and a millimeter is onethousandth of a meter or a tenth of a centimeter. The centimeter, millimeter, kilometer, and meter are the most common metric units. 1meter=0.001kilometers 1kilometer=1000meters

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