1 megametre

1 megametre
Small planets, the Moon and dwarf planets in our solar system have diameters from one to ten million metres. Top row: Mars (left), Mercury (right); bottom row: Moon (left), Pluto (center), and Haumea (right), to scale.

To help compare different orders of magnitude this page lists lengths starting at 106 m (1 Mm or 1,000 km).

Distances shorter than 106 metres

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1 megametre is equal to:

Human-defined scales and structures

Sports

Nature

  • 2.000 Mm — Distance from Beijing to Hong Kong as the crow flies
  • 2.800 Mm — Narrowest width of Atlantic Ocean (Brazil-West Africa)
  • 2.850 Mm — Length of the Danube river
  • 2.205 Mm — Length of Sweden's total land boundaries
  • 2.515 Mm — Length of Norway's total land boundaries
  • 3.690 Mm — Length of the Volga river, longest in Europe
  • 4.350 Mm — Length of the Huang He
  • 4.715 Mm — Length of the Nile
  • 4.800 Mm — Widest width of Atlantic Ocean (U.S.-Northern Africa)
  • 5.100 Mm — Distance from Dublin to New York as the crow flies
  • 6.270 Mm — Length of the Mississippi-Missouri River system
  • 6.380 Mm — Length of the Yangtze River
  • 6.762 Mm — Length of the Amazon system, longest on Earth
  • 8.200 Mm — Distance from Dublin to San Francisco as the crow flies

Astronomical

  • 1.000 Mm — Estimated shortest axis of triaxial dwarf planet Haumea
  • 1.186 Mm — Diameter of Charon, the largest moon of Pluto
  • 1.280 Mm — Diameter of the trans-Neptunian object 50000 Quaoar
  • 1.436 Mm — Diameter of Iapetus, one of Saturn's major moons
  • 1.578 Mm — Diameter of Titania, the largest of Uranus' moons
  • 1.960 Mm — Estimated longest axis of Haumea
  • 2.320 Mm — Diameter of Pluto
  • 2.400 Mm — Diameter of the dwarf planet Eris, the largest trans-Neptunian object found to date
  • 2.707 Mm — Diameter of Triton, largest moon of Neptune
  • 3.122 Mm — Diameter of Europa, the smallest Galilean satellite of Jupiter
  • 3.475 Mm — Diameter of Earth's Moon
  • 3.643 Mm — Diameter of Io, a moon of Jupiter
  • 4.821 Mm — Diameter of Callisto, a moon of Jupiter
  • 4.879 Mm — Diameter of Mercury
  • 5.150 Mm — Diameter of Titan, the largest moon of Saturn
  • 5.262 Mm — Diameter of Jupiter's moon Ganymede, the largest moon in the solar system
  • 6.366 Mm — Radius of Earth
  • 6.792 Mm — Diameter of Mars

Distances longer than 107 m

See also

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References

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