Scandinavian Mil (mil)
Exactly 10 kilometers. Sweden and Norway still quote car distances and fuel consumption in 'mil' (not to be confused with the 'mil' for a thousandth of an inch).
1 Scandinavian mil = 10,000 meters (exactly).
About the Scandinavian mil
Swedes and Norwegians still say that a town is a few mil away, and the word comes from the same Roman source as the English mile. Today one mil is exactly 10 kilometers, a figure Norway fixed when it adopted the metric system in 1875 and Sweden followed in 1889. Finland redefined its own peninkulma as 10 kilometers in 1887.
The older mil was far less tidy. In 1649 Sweden made the Uppland mile, about 10,688.5 meters, its unit mile, though counties kept their own, such as 14,485 meters in Dalarna. After the 1814 union, Norway's mil worked out at about 11,295 meters. Denmark used a shorter one of 7,532.4 meters, standardized in 1683 by Ole Rømer and equal to four minutes of latitude.
Road signs use kilometers, but speech does not. Five kilometers is half a mil, used-car adverts quote odometer readings in mil, and the Swedish Tax Agency counts some deductions in them.
Sources: Wikipedia: Scandinavian mile; Wikipedia: Ole Rømer
Scandinavian Mil conversion chart
1 Scandinavian mil expressed in every other length unit:
| Unit | 1 Scandinavian mil |
|---|---|
| Meters | 10,000 |
| Kilometers | 10 |
| Centimeters | 1,000,000 |
| Millimeters | 10,000,000 |
| Inches | 393,700.7874 |
| Feet | 32,808.39895 |
| Yards | 10,936.13298 |
| Miles | 6.213711922 |
| Micrometers | 10,000,000,000 |
| Nanometers | 10,000,000,000,000 |
| Nautical Miles | 5.399568035 |
| Pixels (CSS) | 37,795,275.59 |
| Light-years | 1.057000834×10⁻¹² |
| Picometers | 1×10¹⁶ |
| Femtometers | 1×10¹⁹ |
| Decimeters | 100,000 |
| Hectometers | 100 |
| Decameters | 1,000 |
| Thou | 393,700,787.4 |
| Points | 28,346,456.69 |
| Picas | 2,362,204.724 |
| Twips | 566,929,133.9 |
| Astronomical Units | 6.684587122×10⁻⁸ |
| Light-seconds | 0.00003335640952 |
| Light-minutes | 5.559401587×10⁻⁷ |
| Light-hours | 9.265669311×10⁻⁹ |
| Parsecs | 3.240779289×10⁻¹³ |
| Megaparsecs | 3.240779289×10⁻¹⁹ |
| Angstroms | 100,000,000,000,000 |
| Fathoms | 5,468.066492 |
| Cable Lengths | 53.99568035 |
| Leagues | 2.071237307 |
| Nautical Leagues | 1.799856012 |
| Furlongs | 49.70969538 |
| Chains | 497.0969538 |
| Rods | 1,988.387815 |
| Links | 49,709.69538 |
| Hands | 98,425.19685 |
| Barleycorns | 1,181,102.362 |
| Palms | 131,233.5958 |
| Spans | 43,744.53193 |
| Cubits | 21,872.26597 |
| Ells | 8,748.906387 |
| US Survey Feet | 32,808.33333 |
| US Survey Miles | 6.213699495 |
| Stadia | 52.08333333 |
| Roman Inches | 406,504.065 |
| Roman Feet | 33,783.78378 |
| Roman Cubits | 22,522.52252 |
| Roman Paces | 6,756.756757 |
| Roman Stadia | 54.05405405 |
| Roman Miles | 6.756756757 |
| Roman Leagues | 4.504504505 |
| Greek Feet | 31,250 |
| Royal Cubits | 19,047.61905 |
| Egyptian Palms | 133,333.3333 |
| Egyptian Fingers | 533,333.3333 |
| Khet | 190.4761905 |
| Biblical Cubits | 18,518.51852 |
| Sabbath Days' Journeys | 9.259259259 |
| Sun | 330,000 |
| Shaku | 33,000 |
| Ken | 5,500 |
| Jō | 3,300 |
| Chō | 91.66666667 |
| Ri (Japanese) | 2.546296296 |
| Fen (Chinese) | 3,000,000 |
| Cun (Chinese) | 300,000 |
| Chi (Chinese) | 30,000 |
| Zhang (Chinese) | 3,000 |
| Li (Chinese) | 20 |
| Vershoks | 224,971.8785 |
| Arshins | 14,060.74241 |
| Sazhens | 4,686.914136 |
| Versts | 9.373828271 |
| Lignes | 4,432,960 |
| Pouces | 369,413.3333 |
| Pieds Du Roi | 30,784.44444 |
| Toises | 5,130.740741 |
| Lieues | 2.56537037 |
| Varas | 11,963.15349 |
| Leguas | 1.794473023 |
| Wa (Thai) | 5,000 |
| Sen (Thai) | 250 |
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