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To help compare orders of magnitude; this page lists lengths between 100 and 1,000 km (105 and 106 m).
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[edit] Conversions
100 km is equal to:
- 62 miles
- side of square with area 10,000 km²
- radius of circle with area 31,415.92653589793238462643383279502884 km²
[edit] Human-built structures
- 108 km — length of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link
- 130 km — range of a Scud-A missile
- 213 km — length of Paris Métro
- 217 km — length of the Grand Union Canal
- 223 km — length of the Madrid Metro
- 300 km — range of a Scud-B missile
- 386 km — altitude of the International Space Station
- 408 km — length of the London Underground (active track)
- 470 km — distance from Dublin to London as the crow flies
- 500 km — widest width of Sweden from east to west
- 550 km — distance from San Francisco to Los Angeles as the crow flies
- 590 km — length of land boundary between Finland and Sweden
- 600 km — range of a Scud-C missile
- 600 km — height above ground of the Hubble Space Telescope
- 871 km — distance from Sydney to Melbourne (along the Hume Highway)
[edit] Nature
- 203 km — length of Sognefjorden, the largest fjord in the world
- 240 km — widest width of the English Channel
- 430 km — length of the Pyrenees
- 724 km — length of the Om River
[edit] Astronomical
- 100 km — the altitude at which the FAI defines spaceflight to begin
- 167 km — diameter of Amalthea, one of Jupiter's inner moons
- 220 km — diameter of Phoebe, the largest of Saturn's outer moons
- 340 km — diameter of Nereid, the third largest moon of Neptune
- 350 km — lower bound of Low Earth orbit
- 420 km — diameter of Proteus, the second largest moon of Neptune
- 468 km — diameter of the asteroid 4 Vesta
- 472 km — diameter of Miranda, one of Uranus' major moons
Distances longer than 1,000 km
