A metric mile is a distance of a mile rounded to an approximate round number in meters. 1600 m is a good number for a metric mile. An actual mile is 1609.344 m. A metric mile set at 1600 m contains 5249.34 ft.
1 mile = 1.609344 kilometres.
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"Mi" is not a standard abbreviation in the metric system. The metric system primarily uses units such as meters (m) for length, kilograms (kg) for mass, and liters (L) for volume.
It is equal to area of a square whose dimensions are one mile by one mile. In terms of the US Customary System, this is 4,014,489,600 square inches, 27,878,400 square feet, 3,097,600 quare yards or 640 acres. When converted to the Metric system, this is 2,589,988.110336 square meters.
The other system is called the imperial system. Some imperial measurements are foot, inch, yard and mile.
According to the Wikipedia article, a metric mile can be 1500 meters, or 1600 meters. While 1 statute mile is 1609.344 meters. I guess this is the imperial mile that you are referring to.So the metric mile is less.
The characters in the Star Wars universe only use the metric system.
The metric 'kilometer' is typically used to express the length of the same category of measurements as the English 'mile'. But it's a stretch to say that they are "about the same". One kilometer is almost 38% shorter than a mile.
Since Ireland uses the metric system, its area, per square mile, is approx 2.59 square kilometres.
The meter is the standard unit of length or distance in the metric system. In that sense, it's one more member of the group, along with the inch, foot, yard, furlong, and mile.