militer
Kilometer (or kilometre), which is 1000 meters (metres) and equals 0.621 mile or 3280.8 feet.
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.
A mile
meter
mi is the abbreviation for mile.
A kilometer is a metric measurement similar to a mile. One mile is approximately equal to 1.609 kilometers. Both are used to measure distance, with kilometers being the standard unit in most countries that use the metric system.
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.
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 other system is called the imperial system. Some imperial measurements are foot, inch, yard and mile.
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.