Scandinavian Mil to Miles (mil to mi)

1 Scandinavian mil equals 6.213711922 miles (rounded).

1 Scandinavian mil = 6.213711922 miles

How to convert Scandinavian mil to miles

To convert Scandinavian mil to miles, multiply the number of Scandinavian mil by 6.213711922. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply miles by 0.1609344.

miles = Scandinavian mil × 6.213711922

Example: 10 Scandinavian mil = 62.13711922 miles.

About these units

Scandinavian Mil (mil)

ScandinavianTraditional unit (still used in some regions)

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).

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.

1 Scandinavian mil = 10,000 meters (exactly).

Sources: Wikipedia: Scandinavian mile; Wikipedia: Ole Rømer

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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