One inch = 0.0000157828 mile (rounded)
One mile = 63,360 inches
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One mile is equal to 63,360 inches, so yes, a mile is bigger than an inch.
it is only to scale. if it says on the map that one inch is one mile, then it is a mile in real life.
Even the very largest of cities would not measure 40 miles from one side to the other. Therefore a scale of 1 inch to 40 miles would compress the city map into an area the size of a postage stamp. A scale of 1 inch to 400 miles would make it extremely tiny. A fairly large city could be 15 miles from one side to the other. With a scale of 1 inch to 2 miles the map may just fit on an A4 sheet of paper. 1 inch to 1 mile would fit A3. 1 inch to 1/4 mile would require 16 sheets of A3 which would be unwieldy. Depending on the size of the city and size of the paper on which you wish to print the map it looks as though a scale of 1 inch to 3/4 mile or 1inch to 1 mile would be preferable.
1 inch = 0.00002 mile
Centimeter, inch, foot, yard, meter, hectometer, mile. This is annoying because they are not easily compared, because the meter is not in terms of feet nor is the inch in terms of centimeters etc...