Miles to Wa (Thai) (mi to wa)

1 mile equals 804.672 wa (Thai) exactly.

1 mile = 804.672 wa (Thai)

How to convert miles to wa (Thai)

To convert miles to wa (Thai), multiply the number of miles by 804.672. This factor is exact. To go the other way, multiply wa (Thai) by 0.001242742384 (rounded).

wa (Thai) = miles × 804.672

Example: 10 miles = 8,046.72 wa (Thai).

About these units

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

Wa (Thai) (wa)

ThaiTraditional unit (still used in some regions)

Exactly 2 meters, the Thai fathom. Used in land measurement alongside the rai.

Wa is the Thai fathom, a length of 2 meters. It belongs to a traditional Thai scale built on the human body, in which the khuep (span) is 25 cm, the sok (cubit) is 50 cm, and four sok make one wa, the span of outstretched arms.

Larger distances were counted in the sen, which is 20 wa, and the long road measure yot, equal to 400 sen. Surveyors working on the Royal Thai Survey Department cadastral survey, begun in 1896, tied these units to metric lengths, and the wa kept the round value of 2 m that it carries today.

Because the metric figure is exact, the old body-based uncertainty has gone. A wa still appears in land deeds and frontage descriptions, and in daily speech a plot may be described as so many wa wide. It is also the side of the square wa, which is 4 square meters.

1 wa (Thai) = 2 meters (exactly).

Sources: Wikipedia: Thai units of measurement; Wikipedia: Rai (unit)

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