Nope, a kilometer is 1,000 meters
There are 100 centimeters in a meter
There are 100,000 centimeters in a kilometer
Both units measure distance in the metric system. However, as you can see by the explanation above, a centimeter is only a small fraction of a kilometer.
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No, they are different.
centi- stands for 1/100th while milli- stands for 1/1000th
So you need 100 centimeters to fill a meter
you need 1000 millimeters to fill a meter.
One centimeter is exactly 10 times larger than a millimeter, so 10 millimeter will fit into a centimeter.
For me it's easy to remember because I've grown up using metric, but it's also helpful to have a ruler that has lines indicating millimeters between the centimeters (and inches on the other side of the ruler for comparison).
No, kilometers and centimeters are not the same. Kilometers are a unit of distance equal to 1000 meters, whereas centimeters are a unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
The centimeter (100th of a meter) is 10 times longer than a millimeter (1000th of a meter).
There are 40,000,000 centimeters in 400 kilometers, as there are 100,000 centimeters in a kilometer.
There are 500 000 centimeters in 5 kilometers.
32,000 centimeters is 0.32 kilometers.
500 centimeters = 0.005 kilometers
4 kilometers is equal to 400,000 centimeters.