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A mile is a unit of distance used primarily in the United States and some Commonwealth countries, defined as 5,280 feet or about 1.6 kilometers. It matters because it's the standard measure for distance in daily life in these countries, used for everything from speed limits to travel planning.
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- Unit.name
- Mile
- Unit.image
- Milestone, Knightsbridge, London - geograph.org.uk - 1590514.jpg
- Unit.caption
- A milestone in the City of Westminster showing the distance from Kensington Road to Hounslow and Hyde Park Corner in miles
- Unit.standard
- British imperial/US customary
- Unit.quantity
- length
- Unit.symbol
- mi. or mi
- Unit.symbol2
- (rarely) m
- Unit.units1
- SI units
- Unit.units2
- imperial/US units
- Unit.units3
- US survey mile
- Unit.inunits3
- survey mile
- Unit.units4
- nautical units
- Unit.inunits4
- ≈
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- English unit of measurement
- Part of
- Russian system of units
- Image
- Thimphu and Watsa milestone.jpg
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- unit symbol
- mil
- conversion to SI unit
- 1609.344
- conversion to standard unit
- 0.2894737
- measured physical quantity
- length
- different from
- Mell
- Wikidata SPARQL query equivalent
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