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Unit of length

mile
A milestone in Westminster showing the distance from Kensington Road to Hounslow and Hyde Park Corner in miles
General information
Unit system	British imperial/US customary
Unit of	length
Symbol	mi. or mi or(rarely) m
Conversions
i mi. or mi in ...	... is equal to ...

SI units	1609.344 k
regal/United states units	63360 inches 5280 ft 1760 yd eighty ch 8 fur
US survey mile	0.999998 survey mile
nautical units	0.86898 nmi

The mile, sometimes the international mile or statute mile to distinguish information technology from other miles, is a British imperial unit and U.s. customary unit of distance; both are based on the older English unit of length equal to five,280 English feet, or one,760 yards. The statute mile was standardised betwixt the British Democracy and the United states past an international agreement in 1959, when information technology was formally redefined with respect to SI units as exactly 1,609.344 metres.

With qualifiers, mile is also used to depict or translate a broad range of units derived from or roughly equivalent to the Roman mile, such as the nautical mile (now 1.852 km exactly), the Italian mile (roughly 1.852 km), and the Chinese mile (at present 500 m exactly). The Romans divided their mile into 5,000 Roman feet but the greater importance of furlongs in Elizabethan-era England meant that the statute mile was made equivalent to 8 furlongs or 5,280 feet in 1593. This form of the mile then spread across the British Empire, some of which continues to employ the mile. The US Geological Survey now employs the metre for official purposes, but legacy data from its 1927 geodetic datum has meant that a carve up US survey mile ( 6336 / 3937 km) continues to run across some use, although it will exist officially phased out in 2022. While most countries replaced the mile with the kilometre when switching to the International Organization of Units (SI), the international mile continues to exist used in some countries, such as Republic of liberia, the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland, the U.s.a., and a number of countries with fewer than ane 1000000 inhabitants, most of which are United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland or U.s. territories or have shut historical ties with the UK or The states.

Name [edit]

The modern English give-and-take mile derives from Middle English myle and Old English mīl , which was cognate with all other Germanic terms for miles. These derived from the nominal ellipsis form of mīlle passus 'mile' or mīlia passuum 'miles', the Roman mile of one 1000 paces.^[1]

The present international mile is commonly what is understood past the unqualified term mile. When this altitude needs to be distinguished from the nautical mile, the international mile may likewise be described as a land mile or statute mile.^[2] In British English, statute mile may refer to the present international mile or to whatsoever other form of English language mile since the 1593 Act of Parliament, which set information technology equally a distance of one,760 yards. Nether American constabulary, however, statute mile refers to the U.s. survey mile.^[3] Foreign and historical units translated into English as miles usually employ a qualifier to describe the kind of mile beingness used just this may exist omitted if it is obvious from the context, such as a word of the 2d-century Antonine Itinerary describing its distances in terms of miles rather than Roman miles.

The mile has been variously abbreviated in English—with and without a trailing period—equally mi, M, ml, and m.^[four] The American National Institute of Standards and Technology at present uses and recommends mi to avert confusion with the SI metre (thousand) and millilitre (ml).^[5] Withal, derived units such every bit miles per hr or miles per gallon continue to be abbreviated every bit mph and mpg rather than mi/h and mi/gal. In the United Kingdom, road signs use m as the abbreviation for mile though pinnacle and width restrictions likewise use m as the abbreviation for the metre, which may be displayed alongside anxiety and inches.^[6] The BBC way holds that "at that place is no acceptable abbreviation for miles" and and then information technology should be spelled out when used in describing areas.^[7]

Historical [edit]

Roman [edit]

The Roman mile ( mille passus , lit. "thousand paces"; abbr. m.p.; likewise milia passuum ^{[northward 1]} and mille ) consisted of a thousand paces as measured by every other step—every bit in the total distance of the left foot hit the basis i,000 times. The ancient Romans, marching their armies through uncharted territory, would often button a carved stick in the ground later each 1,000 paces.^{[ citation needed ]} Well-fed and harshly driven Roman legionaries in proficient conditions thus created longer miles. The distance was indirectly standardised past Agrippa's establishment of a standard Roman foot (Agrippa's ain) in 29 BC,^[nine] and the definition of a step as v feet. An Royal Roman mile thus denoted 5,000 Roman feet. Surveyors and specialised equipment such as the decempeda and dioptra then spread its apply.^[ten]

In modern times, Agrippa's Majestic Roman mile was empirically estimated to have been about one,618 yards (one,479 m) in length, slightly less than the 1,760 yards (ane,610 m) of the modernistic international mile.^[11]

In Hellenic areas of the Empire, the Roman mile (Greek: μίλιον , mílion) was used abreast the native Greek units as equivalent to 8 stadia of 600 Greek anxiety. The mílion connected to be used equally a Byzantine unit and was also used every bit the proper name of the zilch mile marker for the Byzantine Empire, the Milion, located at the head of the Mese about Hagia Sophia.

The Roman mile likewise spread throughout Europe, with its local variations giving rise to the different units below.^{[ commendation needed ]}

As well arising from the Roman mile is the milestone. All roads radiated out from the Roman Forum throughout the Empire – fifty,000 (Roman) miles of stone-paved roads. At every mile was placed a shaped stone. Originally these were obelisks made from granite, marble, or whatever local stone was available. On these was carved a Roman numeral, indicating the number of miles from the centre of Rome – the Forum. Hence, one always knew how far one was from Rome.^[12]

Italian [edit]

The Italian mile ( miglio , pl. miglia ) was traditionally considered a direct continuation of the Roman mile, equal to g paces,^[13] although its actual value over time or betwixt regions could vary greatly.^[xiv] It was often used in international contexts from the Middle Ages into the 17th century^[xiii] and is thus also known as the "geographical mile",^[fifteen] although the geographical mile is now a separate standard unit.

Arabic [edit]

The Arabic mile ( الميل , al-mīl) was not the common Arabic unit of length; instead, Arabs and Persians traditionally used the longer parasang or "Standard arabic league". The Arabic mile was, still, used by medieval geographers and scientists and constituted a kind of precursor to the nautical or geographical mile. Information technology extended the Roman mile to fit an astronomical approximation of 1 arcminute of latitude measured direct northward-and-south along a meridian. Although the precise value of the approximation remains disputed, it was somewhere between 1.eight and 2.0 km.

English [edit]

The "old English mile" of the medieval and early on modernistic periods varied but seems to have measured virtually 1.3 international miles (2.i km).^[sixteen] The English language long continued the Roman computations of the mile every bit 5000 feet, 1000 paces, or 8 longer divisions, which they equated with their "furrow'due south length" or furlong.^[17]

The origins of English language units are "extremely vague and uncertain",^[18] but seem to have been a combination of the Roman system with native British and Germanic systems both derived from multiples of the barleycorn.^{[n two]} Probably by the reign of Edgar in the 10th century, the nominal paradigm physical standard of English length was an arm-length iron bar (a yardstick) held by the rex at Winchester;^[nineteen] ^[21] the foot was so ane-tertiary of its length. Henry I was said to have made a new standard in 1101 based on his own arm.^[18] Following the issuance of Magna Carta, the barons of Parliament directed John and his son to keep the king'southward standard measure ( Mensura Domini Regis ) and weight at the Exchequer,^[18] which thereafter verified local standards until its abolition in the 19th century. New contumely standards are known to have been synthetic under Henry Vii and Elizabeth I.^[22]

Arnold'south c. 1500 Customs of London recorded a mile shorter than previous ones, coming to 0.947 international miles or 1.524 km.^[17]

Statute [edit]

The English statute mile was established by a Weights and Measures Human action of Parliament in 1593 during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. The act on the Limerick of Yards and Perches had shortened the length of the foot and its associated measures, causing the two methods of determining the mile to diverge.^[23] Owing to the importance of the surveyor'south rod in deeds and surveying undertaken under Henry VIII,^[24] decreasing the length of the rod by 1⁄eleven would have amounted to a pregnant tax increase. Parliament instead opted to maintain the mile of 8 furlongs (which were derived from the rod) and to increase the number of feet per mile from the old Roman value.^[25] The applicative passage of the statute reads: "A Mile shall incorporate eight Furlongs, every Furlong twoscore Poles,^{[north 3]} and every Pole shall contain xvi Foot and an one-half."^[27] The statute mile therefore contained 5,280 anxiety or 1,760 yards.^[17] The distance was not uniformly adopted. Robert Morden had multiple scales on his 17th-century maps which included standing local values: his map of Hampshire, for case, diameter two unlike "miles" with a ratio of i : 1.23 ^[28] and his map of Dorset had iii scales with a ratio of one : 1.23 : one.41.^[29] In both cases, the traditional local units remained longer than the statute mile. The English statute mile was superseded in 1959 by the international mile past international understanding.

Welsh [edit]

The Welsh mile ( milltir or milldir ) was iii miles and 1470 yards long (half dozen.17 km). It comprised 9000 paces ( cam ), each of 3 Welsh feet ( troedfedd ) of 9 inches ( modfeddi ).^[30] (The Welsh inch is unremarkably reckoned as equivalent to the English inch.) Along with other Welsh units, it was said to have been codified under Dyfnwal the Bald and Silent and retained unchanged by Hywel the Skillful.^[31] Along with other Welsh units, it was discontinued following the conquest of Wales by the English under Edward I in the 13th century.

Scots [edit]

The Scots mile was longer than the English mile,^[33] equally mentioned by Robert Burns in the first poetry of his poem "Tam o' Shanter". It comprised viii (Scots) furlongs divided into 320 falls or faws (Scots rods).^[34] It varied from place to place but the most accepted equivalencies are one,976 Imperial yards (1.123 statute miles or one.81 km).

Information technology was legally abolished three times: starting time by a 1685 act of the Scottish Parliament,^[35] once more by the 1707 Treaty of Union with England,^[36] and finally by the Weights and Measures Human action 1824.^[33] It had continued in apply as a customary unit through the 18th century just had become obsolete by its final abolition.

Irish [edit]

Milestone on Mountbellew Bridge, erected c. 1760. Distances are given in Irish gaelic miles.

The Irish mile ( míle or míle Gaelach ) measured 2240 yards: approximately one.27 statute miles or two.048 kilometres.^[37] ^[38] It was used in Ireland from the 16th century plantations until the 19th century, with residual employ into the 20th century. The units were based on "English measure out" but used a linear perch measuring vii yards (6.four yard) as opposed to the English rod of 5.v yards (5.0 yard).^[38]

Dutch [edit]

Scalebar on a 16th-century map fabricated by Mercator. The scalebar is expressed in "Hours walking or common Flemish miles", and includes 3 actual scales: small, medium and big Flemish miles.

The Dutch mile ( mijl ) has had different definitions throughout history. One of the older definitions was 5600 ells. But the length of an ell was not standardised, so that the length of a mile could range between 3280 1000 and 4280 m. The Dutch mile also has had historical definitions of one 60 minutes's walking ( uur gaans ), which meant around five km, or 20,000 Amsterdam or Rhineland feet (respectively 5660 m or 6280 m). Besides the common Dutch mile, there is also the geographical mile. 15 geographical Dutch miles equal one degree of longitude on the equator. Its value changed equally the circumference of the globe was estimated to a improve precision. But at the fourth dimension of usage, information technology was around 7157 m. The metric organization was introduced in the Netherlands in 1816, and the metric mile became a synonym for the kilometre, being exactly 1000 m. Since 1870, the term mijl was replaced by the equivalent kilometer . Today, the word mijl is no longer used, except as function of certain proverbs and chemical compound terms similar mijlenver ("miles away").

German [edit]

Various historic miles and leagues from an 1848 German textbook, given in feet, metres, and fractions of a "degree of top"

The German mile ( Meile ) was 24,000 German language feet. The standardised Austrian mile used in southern Germany and the Austrian Empire was 7.586 km; the Prussian mile used in northern Germany was 7.5325 km. Following its standardisation by Ole Rømer in the late 17th century, the Danish mile ( mil ) was precisely equal to the Prussian mile and as well divided into 24,000 feet.^[39] These were sometimes treated as equivalent to 7.v km. Earlier values had varied: the Sjællandske miil , for example, had been 11.thirteen km. The Germans also used a longer version of the geographical mile.

Breslau [edit]

The Breslau mile, used in Breslau, and from 1630 officially in all of Silesia, equal to 11,250 ells, or about 6700 meters. The mile equaled the distance from the Piaskowa Gate all the way to Psie Pole (Hundsfeld). Past rolling a circumvolve with a radius of 5 ells through Piaskowa Isle, Ostrów Tumski and suburban tracts, passing eight bridges on the manner, the standard Breslau mile was determined.^[40] ^[41]

Saxon [edit]

The Saxon post mile ( kursächsische Postmeile or Polizeimeile , introduced on occasion of a survey of the Saxon roads in the 1700s, corresponded to 2000 Dresden rods, equivalent to ix.062 kilometres.^[42]

Hungarian [edit]

The Hungarian mile ( mérföld or magyar mérföld ) varied from 8.3790 km to 8.9374 km before existence standardised every bit 8.3536 km.

Portuguese [edit]

The Portuguese mile ( milha ) used in Portugal and Brazil was 2.0873 km prior to metrication.^[43]

Russian [edit]

The Russian mile ( миля or русская миля , russkaya milya ) was seven.468 km, divided into 7 versts.

Croation [edit]

The Croatian mile ( hrvatska milja ), first devised by the Jesuit Stjepan Glavač on a 1673 map, is the length of an arc of the equator subtended by 1 / ten ° or 11.13 km exactly.^[44] ^[45] The previous Croatian mile, at present known as the "ban mile" ( banska milja ), had been the Austrian mile given above.^[46]

Ottoman [edit]

The Ottoman mile was ane,894.35 m (ane.17709 mi), which was equal to five,000 Ottoman human foot. Later on 1933, the Ottoman mile was replaced with the modern Turkish mile (one,853.181 m).

International [edit]

The international mile is precisely equal to 1.609344 km (or 25146 / 15625 km every bit a fraction).^[48] It was established equally office of the 1959 international g and pound agreement reached by the United States, the Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the Union of South Africa,^[49] which resolved small but measurable differences that had arisen from separate physical standards each land had maintained for the yard.^[50] Equally with the earlier statute mile, it continues to comprise 1,760 yards or 5,280 anxiety.

The erstwhile Imperial value of the yard was used in converting measurements to metric values in India in a 1976 Act of the Indian Parliament.^[51] Yet, the current National Topographic Database of the Survey of Bharat is based on the metric WGS-84 datum,^[52] which is likewise used past the Global Positioning System.

The difference from the previous standards was 2 ppm, or well-nigh 3.2 millimetres ( 1⁄eight inch) per mile. The U.S. standard was slightly longer and the old Imperial standards had been slightly shorter than the international mile. When the international mile was introduced in English-speaking countries, the basic geodetic datum in America was the North American Datum of 1927 (NAD27). This had been constructed past triangulation based on the definition of the foot in the Mendenhall Order of 1893, with one foot = 1200 / 3937 (≈0.304800609601) metres and the definition was retained for data derived from NAD27, just renamed the U.S. survey foot to distinguish information technology from the international foot.^[53] ^{[n 4]} Thus a survey mile = 1200 / 3937 × 5280 (≈1609.347218694) metres. An international mile = 1609.344 / ( 1200 / 3937 × 5280) (=0.999998) survey miles.

The exact length of the land mile varied slightly among English-speaking countries until the international yard and pound agreement in 1959 established the yard as exactly 0.9144 metres, giving a mile of exactly 1,609.344 metres. The U.Due south. adopted this international mile for nearly purposes, but retained the pre-1959 mile for some country-survey data, terming information technology the U. S. survey mile. In the Usa, statute mile normally refers to the survey mile,^[54] about three.219 mm ( 1⁄viii inch) longer than the international mile (the international mile is exactly 0.0002% less than the U.S. survey mile).

While nigh countries abased the mile when switching to the metric system, the international mile continues to be used in some countries, such as Liberia, Myanmar,^[55] the United kingdom^[56] and the United States.^[57] It is also used in a number of territories with less than a million inhabitants, virtually of which are U.K. or U.Southward. territories, or accept close historical ties with the U.K. or U.S.: American Samoa,^[58] Bahama islands,^[59] Belize,^[60] British Virgin Islands,^[61] Cayman Islands,^[62] Dominica,^[62] Falkland Islands,^[63] Grenada,^[64] Guam,^[65] The N. Mariana Islands,^[66] Samoa,^[67] St. Lucia,^[68] St. Vincent & The Grenadines,^[69] St. Helena,^[70] St. Kitts & Nevis,^[71] the Turks & Caicos Islands,^[72] and the U.S. Virgin Islands.^[73] The mile is fifty-fifty encountered in Canada, though this is predominantly in rail transport and equus caballus racing, as the roadways have been metricated since 1977.^[74] ^[75] ^[76] ^[77] The Democracy of Ireland gradually replaced miles with kilometres, including in speed measurements; the process was completed in 2005.

U.S. survey [edit]

The U.South. survey mile is 5,280 U.S. survey feet, both very slightly longer than the international mile and international foot, or about one,609.347 metres and 0.30480061 metres respectively.^[78] In the United States, the term statute mile formally refers to the survey mile,^[3] merely for most purposes, the difference of less than 1⁄viii inch (3.ii mm) between the survey mile and the international mile (1609.344 metres exactly) is insignificant—one international mile is 0.999998 U.Southward. survey miles—so statute mile can be used for either. But in some cases, such every bit in the U.Due south. State Plane Coordinate Systems (SPCSs), which can stretch over hundreds of miles,^[79] the accumulated difference can be significant, and so information technology is important to note that the reference is to the U.Due south. survey mile.

The The states redefined its yard in 1893, and this resulted in U.South. and Purple measures of distance having very slightly unlike lengths.

The N American Datum of 1983 (NAD83), which replaced the NAD27, is divers in metres. Land Plane Coordinate Systems were then updated, just the National Geodetic Survey left individual states to decide which (if any) definition of the foot they would utilise. All State Plane Coordinate Systems are divers in metres, and 42 of the l states only use the metre-based State Plane Coordinate Systems. Yet, eight states also have State Plane Coordinate Systems defined in feet, seven of them in U.S. survey feet and one in international feet.^[79]

State legislation in the U.S. is important for determining which conversion factor from the metric datum is to be used for land surveying and real manor transactions, even though the difference (ii ppm) is hardly meaning, given the precision of normal surveying measurements over short distances (unremarkably much less than a mile). Twenty-four states have legislated that surveying measures be based on the U.S. survey foot, 8 have legislated that they be based on the international foot, and eighteen have not specified which conversion gene to use.^[79]

SPCS 83 legislation refers to land legislation that has been passed or updated using the newer 1983 NAD information. Nearly states have done then. 2 states (AK, MO) and ii jurisdictions (GU, PR) do not specify which foot to use.^[79] Additionally, two states (AL, HI) and iv jurisdictions (DC, Vi, As, MP) practice not have SPCS 83 legislation.^[79]

In October 2019, U.S. National Geodetic Survey and National Institute of Standards and Technology announced their joint intent to retire the U.Due south. survey human foot and U.S. survey mile, as permitted by their 1959 conclusion, with consequence from the end of 2022.^[80] ^[81]

Nautical [edit]

On the utility of the nautical mile.
Each circumvolve shown is a great circle—the analogue of a line in spherical trigonometry—and hence the shortest path connecting two points on the globular surface. Meridians are great circles that pass through the poles.

The nautical mile was originally divers as i minute of arc forth a superlative of the Earth.^[82] Navigators use dividers to step off the distance between two points on the navigational chart, and so identify the open dividers confronting the minutes-of-latitude scale at the edge of the nautical chart, and read off the altitude in nautical miles.^[83] The Earth is not perfectly spherical just an oblate spheroid, so the length of a minute of latitude increases by 1% from the equator to the poles. Using the WGS84 ellipsoid, the commonly accepted World model for many purposes today, ane minute of latitude at the WGS84 equator is 6,046 feet and at the poles is 6,107.5 feet. The boilerplate is nearly half dozen,076 feet (about 1,852 metres or i.15 statute miles).

In the Usa, the nautical mile was defined in the 19th century as 6,080.2 feet (1,853.249 m), whereas in the United Kingdom, the Admiralty nautical mile was divers every bit six,080 feet (1,853.184 m) and was about one minute of latitude in the latitudes of the south of the Britain. Other nations had dissimilar definitions of the nautical mile, but information technology is now internationally divers to be exactly 1,852 metres (half-dozen,076.11548556 feet).^[84]

[edit]

The nautical mile per hr is known every bit the knot. Nautical miles and knots are almost universally used for aeronautical and maritime navigation, because of their relationship with degrees and minutes of breadth and the convenience of using the latitude scale on a map for distance measuring.

The information mile is used in radar-related subjects and is equal to half-dozen,000 feet (i.8288 kilometres).^[85] The radar mile is a unit of time (in the aforementioned style that the light yr is a unit of distance), equal to the fourth dimension required for a radar pulse to travel a distance of 2 miles (one mile each way). Thus, the radar statute mile is 10.viii μs and the radar nautical mile is 12.4 μs.^[86]

Geographical [edit]

The geographical mile is based upon the length of a meridian of latitude. The German geographical mile ( geographische Meile ) was previously 1⁄fifteen ° of latitude (7.4127 km).^[87]

Grid organization [edit]

Cities in the continental United States often accept streets laid out by miles. Detroit, Indianapolis, Chicago, Phoenix, Philadelphia, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and Miami, are several examples. Typically the largest streets are about a mile apart, with others at smaller intervals. In the Manhattan borough of New York Metropolis "streets" are shut to 20 per mile, while the major numbered "avenues" are about six per mile. (Centerline to centerline, 42nd Street to 22nd Street is supposed to be 5250 anxiety while 42nd Street to 62nd Street is supposed to be^{[ description needed ]} 5276 ft eight in.)^{[ citation needed ]}

Metric [edit]

The informal term "metric mile" is used in some countries, in sports such as track and field athletics and speed skating, to denote a distance of one,500 metres (0.932 miles). The 1500 meters is the premier center distance running outcome in Olympic sports. In U.s. high-school competition, the term is sometimes used for a race of one,600 metres (0.994 miles).^[88]

Scandinavian [edit]

The Scandinavian mile ( mil ) remains in common employ in Norway and Sweden, where information technology has meant precisely 10 km since metrication in 1889.^[39] It is used in breezy situations and in measurements of fuel consumption, which are often given as litres per mil . In formal situations (such as official road signs) and where defoliation may occur with international miles, information technology is avoided in favour of kilometres.

The Swedish mile was standardised as 36,000 Swedish anxiety or 10.687 km in 1649; before that it varied by province from about 6 to 14.485 km.^[39]

Before metrication, the Norwegian mile was 11.298 km.

The traditional Finnish peninkulma was translated as mil in Swedish and also set equal to 10 km during metrication in 1887, only is much less commonly used.

Comparing table [edit]

A comparison of the dissimilar lengths for a "mile", in different countries and at unlike times in history, is given in the table below. Leagues are as well included in this listing because, in terms of length, they fall in betwixt the short West European miles and the long North, Central and Eastern European miles.

Length (m)	Proper name	State used	From	To	Definition	Remarks
0500	lǐ	mainland China	1984	today	1500 chi	in Chinese, this unit of measurement and the regal mile are written using the same give-and-take (里), with a qualifier to distinguish between systems if needed
0960–i,152	Talmudic mil	Land of State of israel/Canaan				Biblical and Talmudic units of measurement
0i,480	mille passus, milliarium	Roman Empire				Ancient Roman units of measurement
01,486.6	miglio^[89]	Sicily
0ane,524	London mile	England
01,609.3426	(statute) mile	Uk	1592	1959	1,760 yards	Over the course of fourth dimension, the length of a yard inverse several times and consequently and so did the English language, and from 1824, the imperial mile. The statute mile was introduced in 1592 during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I
0 1,609.344	mile	some Anglosaxon countries	1959	today	i,760 yards	On 1 July 1959 the royal mile was standardized to an exact length in metres
0 ane,609.3472	(statute) mile	Usa	1893	today	i,760 yards	From 1959 also called the U.S. Survey Mile. From then its only utility has been land survey, earlier it was the standard mile. From 1893 its exact length in metres was: 3600 / 3937 × 1760
01,820		Italia
0 ane,852	nautical mile	international		today	approx. 1 minute of arc	Measured at a circumference of 40,000 km. Abridgement: NM, nm
01,852.3	(for comparing)				1 meridian minute
01,853.181	nautical mile	Turkey
0ane,855.4	(for comparison)				1 equatorial minute	Although the NM was defined on the footing of the minute, it varies from the equatorial minute, considering at that fourth dimension the circumference of the equator could only be estimated at xl,000 km.
02,065		Portugal
02,220	Gallo-Roman league	Gallo-Roman culture			one.five miles	Under the reign of Emperor Septimius Severus, this replaced the Roman mile equally the official unit of distance in the Gallic and Germanic provinces, although there were regional and temporal variations.^[90]
02,470		Sardinia, Piemont
0ii,622		Scotland
02,880		Ireland
03,780		Flemish region
03,898	French lieue (postal service league)	France			2,000 "body lengths"
03,927	Ri	Nihon			12960 shaku
04,000	general or metric league
04,000	legue	Republic of guatemala
04,190	legue	Mexico^[91]			= 2,500 tresas = 5,000 varas
04,444.eight	landleuge				ane⁄25 ° of a circle of longitude
04,452.ii	lieue commune	France				Units of measurement in France before the French Revolution
0four,513	legue	Paraguay
04,513	legua	Chile,^[91] (Republic of guatemala, Haiti)			= 36 cuadros = 5400 varas
0iv,808		Switzerland
04,828	English language land league	England			3 miles
04,800 0four,900	Germanic rasta, likewise doppelleuge (double league)
05,000	légua nova	Portugal^[91]
05,196	legua	Republic of bolivia^[91]			= xl ladres
05,152	legua Argentine republic	Argentina, Buenos Aires^[91]			= 6,000 varas
05,154	legue	Uruguay
0five,200	Bolivian legua	Bolivia
05,370	legue	Venezuela
0v,500	Portuguese legua	Portugal
0five,510	legue	Ecuador
0five,510	Ecuadorian legua	Republic of ecuador
05,532.five	Landleuge (state league)	Prussia				Obsolete German units of measurement
05,540	legue	Honduras
0v,556	Seeleuge (nautical league)				1⁄twenty ° of a circle of longitude three nautical miles
0v,570	legua	Spain and Chile				Spanish customary units
0five,572	legua	Colombia^[91]			= 3 Millas
05,572.7	legue	Republic of peru^[91]			= twenty,000 feet
0five,572.7	legua Antigua old league	Espana^[91]			= iii millas = 15,000 feet
05,590	légua	Brazil^[91]			= 5,000 varas = two,500 bracas
0v,600	Brazilian legua	Brazil
05,685	Fersah (Turkish league)	Ottoman Empire		1933	4 Turkish miles	Derived from Western farsi Parasang.
0v,840^[92]	Dutch mile	Holland
0half dozen,170	milltir	Wales		13thC	9000 camau ( = 27 000 troedfeddi = 243 000 inches)	Eclipsed by the conquest of Wales by Edward I
0half-dozen,197	légua antiga	Portugal^[91]			= 3 milhas = 24 estadios
0half-dozen,240	Persian legue	Persia
06,277		Luxembourg
0half dozen,280		Kingdom of belgium
06,687.24	legua nueva new league, since 1766	Spain^[91]			= viii,000 varas
0six,700	Breslau mile	Silesia	1630	1872		Also known every bit Mila wrocławska in Polish
0vi,797	Landvermessermeile (state survey mile)	Saxony				Obsolete High german units of measurement
0vii,400		Netherlands
07,409	(for comparison)				4 meridian minutes
0seven,419.2		Kingdom of Hanover				Obsolete German units of measurement
0vii,419.4		Duchy of Brunswick				Obsolete German language units of measurement
07,420.4 07,414.9		Bavaria				Obsolete German units of measurement
07,420.439	geographic mile				1⁄15 equatorial grads^{[ dubious – discuss ]}
07,421.vi	(for comparison)				4 equatorial minutes
07,448.7		Württemberg				Obsolete German units of measurement
07,450		Hohenzollern				Obsolete High german units of measurement
0seven,467.6		Russia			vii verst	Obsolete Russian units of measurement
07,480		Bohemia
0vii,500	kleine / neue Postmeile (small/new postal mile)	Saxony		1840		German Empire, N German Confederation, K Duchy of Hesse, Russia. Obsolete High german units of measurement.
07,532.5	Land(es)meile (German state mile)	Denmark, Hamburg, Prussia				Primarily for Denmark divers past Ole Rømer. Obsolete High german units of measurement.
0seven,585.9	Postmeile (post mile)	Austro-Hungary				Austrian units of measurement
07,850	Milă	Romania
0eight,534.31	Mila	Poland	1819			7146 meters before 1819, besides equaled vii verst^[93]
08,800		Schleswig-Holstein				Obsolete German units of measurement
0eight,888.89		Baden				Obsolete German language units of measurement
09,062	mittlere Mail- / Polizeimeile (heart mail service mile or constabulary mile)	Saxony		1722		Obsolete German units of measurement
0nine,206.3		Electorate of Hesse				Obsolete German language units of measurement
09,261.four	(for comparison)				5 peak minutes
09,277	(for comparison)				5 equatorial minutes
09,323	alte Landmeile (sometime country mile)	Hanover		1836		Obsolete High german units of measurement
09,347	alte Landmeile (former state mile)	Hanover		1836		Obsolete German units of measurement
09,869.6		Oldenburg
10,000	metric mile, Scandinavian mile	Kingdom of norway, Sweden		today		even so commonly used today, east. yard. for road distances.; equates to the myriametre
10,044	große Meile (great mile)	Westphalia				Obsolete German language units of measurement
10,670		Republic of finland
ten,688.54	mil	Sweden		1889		In normal speech, "mil" means a Scandinavian mile of ten km.
11,113.7	(for comparing)				6 superlative minutes
eleven,132.iv	(for comparison)				half dozen equatorial minutes
xi,299	mil	Norway				was equivalent to 3000 Rhenish rods.

Similar units:

1066.8 m – verst, meet also Obsolete Russian units of measurement

Idioms [edit]

Fifty-fifty in English-speaking countries that accept moved from the Imperial to the metric system (for example, Commonwealth of australia, Canada, and New Zealand), the mile is still used in a variety of idioms. These include:

A country mile is used colloquially to denote a very long distance.
"A miss is equally skillful equally a mile" (failure by a narrow margin is no better than any other failure)
"Give him an inch and he'll take a mile" – a corruption of "Give him an inch and he'll take an ell" ^[94] ^[95] (the person in question will go greedy if shown generosity)
"Missed by a mile" (missed by a broad margin)
"Become a mile a minute" (movement very speedily)
"Talk a mile a infinitesimal" (speak at a rapid charge per unit)
"To go the actress mile" (to put in actress effort)
"Miles away" (lost in thought, or daydreaming)
"Milestone" (an upshot indicating significant progress)

Notes [edit]

^ A partitive genitive construction literally meaning "grand of paces".^[8]
^ The c. 1300 Limerick of Yards and Perches, a statute of uncertain date normally reckoned as an enactment of Edward I^[19] or Two,^[18] notionally connected to derive English units from 3 barleycorns "dry and round" to the inch^[nineteen] and this statute remained in force until the 1824 Weights and Measures Act establishing the Imperial organisation. In do, official measures were verified using the standards at the Exchequer or but ignored.^[20]
^ "Pole" existence another proper noun for the rod.
^ When reading the certificate it helps to conduct in mind that 999,998 = 3,937 × 254.

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