Unit Of Length

• metre (or "meter" in US English) and its multiples, such as "centimetre" or "kilometre"

• fermi (fm) (= 1 femtometre in SI units)
• angstrom () (= 100 picometres in SI units)
• micron (= 1 micrometre in SI units)

• inch (25.4mm)
• foot (0.3048m)
• yard (0.9144m)
• (terrestrial) mile (~1640m)

• fathom (for depth) (1.8288m)
• nautical mile (1852m)

• chain (~20.1m)
• pole, also called rod or perch (~5m)

• furlong (~201m)

• astronomical unit (AU) (~149 gigametres)
• light year (ly) (~9.46 petametres)
• parsec (pc) (~30.8 petametres), including kiloparsec (kpc) and megaparsec (Mpc)

• Planck length
• Bohr radius

• cana
• cubit
• league
• li (China)
• pace (the "double pace" of about 5 feet used in Ancient Rome)
• verst (Russia)

See also

• Ancient weights and measures
• Medieval weights and measures

External Links

• Online Unit Converter - Conversion of many different units

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