Litre

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A litre (liter in the United States) is the metric unit of volume.

One litre is the volume of one cubic decimetre, that is a cube of 10 x 10 x 10 centimetre. A litre of water weighs very nearly one kilogram.

The abbreviation of litre is L or l. For smaller volumes the millilitre is used: 1000 ml = 1 l.

The capital letter abbreviation "L" is preferred by some people as the small "l" can look like the number one "1".

• 1 litre = 0.2200 imperial gallons
• 1 litre = 0.2642 U.S. gallons

• 1 imperial gallon = 4.5461 litres
• 1 U.S. gallon = 3.7854 litres
• 1 litre = 1 dm³