Liters to Cubic Miles (L to mi³)

1 liter equals 2.399127586×10⁻¹³ cubic miles (rounded).

1 liter = 2.399127586×10⁻¹³ cubic miles

How to convert liters to cubic miles

To convert liters to cubic miles, multiply the number of liters by 2.399127586×10⁻¹³. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply cubic miles by 4,168,181,825,441 (rounded).

cubic miles = liters × 2.399127586×10⁻¹³

Example: 10 liters = 2.399127586×10⁻¹² cubic miles.

Pints, quarts, gallons and fluid ounces differ between the US and the UK. Units are labeled 'US' or 'imperial' to avoid confusion.

About these units

Liter (L)

Metric (SI)Current unit

One cubic decimeter (1,000 cm³). The everyday metric unit of volume for drinks, fuel and cooking.

The liter was born in revolutionary France. In 1795 it was introduced as a republican unit and defined as one cubic decimeter, while the gram was tied to a cubic centimeter of water. The name comes from the older French litron, itself descended from a Byzantine Greek unit of weight, not volume. A small revision of the decimeter in 1798 left the first liter about 1.000974 of today's cubic decimeter, and in 1879 the international metric authorities adopted the liter with the symbol l.

The liter then took a strange detour. In 1901 it was redefined as the space taken up by one kilogram of pure water at its densest, which made it about 1.000028 cubic decimeters, and that muddled definition lasted until 1964, when it was restored to exactly one cubic decimeter. A capital L was added as an alternative symbol in 1979 because a lowercase l is easy to mistake for the digit 1, and NIST says L is the symbol to use in the United States. A liter of water is close to a kilogram, which is why a one-liter bottle feels like a kilo in the hand.

The liter is the reference unit for volume on this site.

Sources: Wikipedia: Litre; NIST Guide to the SI, Chapter 5: units outside the SI

Cubic Mile (mi³)

US & ImperialCurrent unit

About 4.168 cubic kilometers. Used for very large volumes.

Defined as the volume of a cube whose sides are one mile, this unit belongs to the imperial and US customary systems and is used in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. Because the international mile is exactly 1,609.344 meters, the cubic mile is fixed too: about 4.168182 cubic kilometers, a value NIST lists as 4.168 182 times 10 to the 9 cubic meters.

Other equivalents give a feel for its size. Wikipedia lists about 3.38 million acre-feet, around 1.1 trillion US liquid gallons and roughly 147 billion cubic feet. The figure used here is 4,168,181,825,440.58 liters, matching the Wikipedia value of 4.168181825 km3. Since a cubic kilometer is about 0.2399 of a cubic mile, converting between the two is a matter of a factor a little over four.

1 cubic mile = 4,168,181,825,441 liters (approximately).

Sources: Wikipedia: Cubic mile; NIST SP 811 Appendix B.8; Wikipedia: Cubic metre

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