How many millimeters in x mile [statute]?

A mile (mi) is a unit of length in US Customary Units and British Imperial Units. It is most commonly equal to 5,280 feet (1,760 yards, or about 1,609 meters).

It is most commonly equal to 5,280 feet (1,760 yards, or about 1,609 meters).

Examples of distances in miles:

• The Moon is an average of 238,855 miles from Earth or about 30 Earth.
• The circumference of the equator is approximately 24,901 miles.
• The closest distance ever recorded between Mars and Earth was 34.8 million miles or 56 million km.
• The distance in miles from London to Paris is 292.1 miles.
• The distance from Earth to the nearest star outside our solar system, Alpha Centauri, is about 25,700,000,000,000 miles.

A unit of length equal to 1/1000 of a meter and is equivalent to 0.03937 inch. Abbreviation: mm

How big is a millimeter?

Here are examples of things that measure around 1 mm:

• The thickness of a credit card
• A typical mechanical pencil tip measures, for example, 0.5, 0.7, or 0.9 mm
• A medium pen tip size delivers a line that’s about 1.0 mm in width for a ballpoint pen.

Here are more examples of things that measure about one millimeter (order of magnitude):

The width of the lead in a mechanical pencil
The thickness of a credit card
The length of a flea
The width of a grain of salt
The width of a staple
The diameter of the tip of a ballpoint pen
The thickness of a single strand of human hair
The height of the lettering on a penny