Kilo-means 1,000.
Kilo-means 1,000.
The question being WHY, it is because when the metric system was devised it just ended that way. On the other hand, the British Quart is actually larger in volume than the liter where the US quart is smaller by volume than the liter. By the way this difference in standards between the different countries is what led to the founding of the metric system, a way of globalising weights and measures.
1 kilo liter = 1000 liters 1 liter = 1/1000 kilo liter = 0.001 kilo liter
Whenever you're working with metric units, you'll find that the prefix "kilo-" usually means "a thousand"."Kiloliter" means "a thousand liters".That's definitely larger than a liter, I'm pretty sure.
A kilo
The word kilo means thousand, so a kiloliter is 1000 times more than a liter. the word kiloliter isn't used much, though.
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1 kilo
1/1000
Kilo liter
1000 litres