Khet to Miles (khet to mi)

1 khet equals 0.03262198759 miles (rounded).

1 khet = 0.03262198759 miles

How to convert khet to miles

To convert khet to miles, multiply the number of khet by 0.03262198759. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply miles by 30.65417143 (rounded).

miles = khet × 0.03262198759

Example: 10 khet = 0.3262198759 miles.

Approximate value. Standards for the khet varied by place and period, so this converter uses the most commonly cited value. Treat results as estimates, not exact figures.

About these units

Khet (khet)

Ancient EgyptianHistorical unit (no longer in standard use)Approximate value

One hundred royal cubits, about 52.5 m. A land-surveying measure laid out with a knotted cord.

Land in Egypt had to be measured again and again, because the annual Nile flood erased boundaries, and the khet belonged to that work. It is usually explained as a length of 100 royal cubits, measured with a cord or rope marked by knots at regular intervals, a technique shown in tomb scenes such as that of Menna at Thebes. With a cubit of 52.5 cm, one khet comes to about 52.5 m, though cubit rods vary, so the true length could be a metre or so either way.

Usage is not entirely uniform. Wikipedia's article on Egyptian units lists the 100-cubit cord under a different name and gives khet as another label for a short rod of about 60 cm, so the term is read in more than one way by modern authors. In area work the khet is the side of a square, and one square khet is the setat, about 2,760 square metres at this size. The khet is about 52 m, or roughly 57 yards.

1 khet = 52.5 meters (approximately).

Sources: Wikipedia: Ancient Egyptian units of measurement; Wikipedia: Cubit

Mile (mi)

US & ImperialCurrent unit

5,280 feet or 1,760 yards, exactly 1,609.344 meters. This is the statute (international) mile used on US and UK roads.

A thousand paces gave the mile its name. It descends from the Latin mille passus, the Roman mile, by way of Old English mil and Middle English myle. For centuries after Rome, miles of many lengths coexisted; a sixteenth-century Mercator map, for example, shows small, medium and large Flemish miles on a single scale bar. The English statute mile was fixed by an Act of Parliament under Elizabeth I in 1593, which declared that a mile contains eight furlongs, or 5,280 feet.

The 1959 international yard and pound agreement made that mile exactly 1,609.344 meters. A slightly longer US survey mile, about 1,609.347 meters, lingered in American land surveys and was slated for retirement from 1 January 2023. Today the mile is the road unit of the United Kingdom, the United States, Liberia and Myanmar, along with several territories such as the Bahamas, Belize, Guam and the US Virgin Islands. In Canada it survives chiefly in rail transport and horse racing.

1 mile = 1,609.344 meters (exactly).

Sources: Wikipedia: Mile; Wikipedia: Foot (unit); NIST Guide to the SI, Appendix B.8: conversion factors

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