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It's about one-twenty-five-thousandth as long as The Distance from L.A. to New York
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The length of The Distance from L.A. to New York is about 4,490 kilometers.
(Los Angeles, California to New York City, New York) (via I-10 E, I-15 N, I-70 E, I-76 E, I-80 E, I-280 E)
The total length of the freeway route from Los Angeles, California to New York City, New York via Interstate 80 is 4,490 km long. This route intersects eleven states and several major cities, including Las Vegas, Nevada; Denver, Colorado; Lincoln, Nebraska; Omaha, Nebraska; Des Moines, Iowa; South Bend, Indiana; and Cleveland, Ohio.
It's about one-thirty-thousandth as long as I-80
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The length of I-80 is about 4,638.03 kilometers.
(a.k.a. Interstate 80, a.k.a. Keystone Shortway) (net length)
Interstate 80, crosses the continent of North America from Teaneck, New Jersey to San Francisco, California and covers a total length of 4,638.03 km. A 60 km stretch between mile marker 318 in Grand Island, Nebraska and mile marker 390 in Lincoln, Nebraska is the longest straight path in the US Interstate system.
It's about one-forty-thousandth as long as The Great Wall of China (wall only)
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The length of The Great Wall of China (wall only) is about 6,259 kilometers.
(长城, 長城, Chángchéng, a.k.a. 万里长城, 萬里長城, Wànlǐ Chángchéng) (a.k.a. "The long wall of 10,000 Li") (from Shanhaiguan through Lop Nur, China) (wall segments only)
The Great Wall of China has total wall segment length of 6,259 km. Built and maintained in multiple sections over about eleven centuries, the Great Wall is currently suffering the effects of erosion, especially in the older sections made primarily out of mud.
It's about one-forty-thousandth as long as The Amazon River
The length of The Amazon River is about 6,437 kilometers.
(from Nevado Mismi, Arequipa, Peru through near Marajó, Brazil) (approximate distance)
The Amazon River has an approximate distance of 6,437 km. Although by most measures it is the largest and one of the most significant rivers in the world, the region surrounding the Amazon is mostly sparsely populated and the river itself has no bridges across it at any point.
It's about one-fifty-five-thousandth as long as The Great Wall of China (total)
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The length of The Great Wall of China (total) is about 8,850 kilometers.
(长城, 長城, Chángchéng, a.k.a. 万里长城, 萬里長城, Wànlǐ Chángchéng) (a.k.a. "The long wall of 10,000 Li") (from Shanhaiguan through Lop Nur, China) (total length, all branches)
The Great Wall of China, including all branches and trenches, is 8,850 km. Built and maintained in multiple sections over about eleven centuries, the Great Wall is currently suffering the effects of erosion, especially in the older sections made primarily out of mud.
It's about one-seventy-five-thousandth as long as The Diameter of Earth
The length of The Diameter of Earth is about 12,756.2730 kilometers.
(Equatorial)
The Earth — not a perfect sphere, but rather an oblate spheroid with bulged middle — has a diameter of approximately 12,756.2730 kilometers at the Equator. The first complete view of Earth's diameter was in a photograph taken from a V-2 rocket launched in 1946 by the United States Army, which reached an altitude of 104.607360 kilometers.
It's about 95,000 times as wide as a Strand of Spaghetti
The width of a Strand of Spaghetti is about 0.00000170 kilometers.
(average; restaurant and supermarket applications) (based on FMA Omcan Italian Made TR50 Counter Top Pasta Machine Extruder 13317)
An average strand of restaurant-grade spaghetti measures 0.00000170 kilometers in thickness. In 2010, a California Buca di Beppo set a world record by preparing a 13,780-lb bowl of spaghetti, served in a swimming pool.
It's about 150,000 times as long as a Grain of Sand
The length of a Grain of Sand is about 0.000001250 kilometers.
(medium grain)
Composed mainly of quartz, mica, feldspar, or magnetite, a grain of sand measures an average of 0.000001250 kilometers. In 2007, a team of seven in Myrtle Beach created the world's tallest sandcastle, which measured 0.0151 kilometers in height.
It's about one-two-hundred-fifty-thousandth as long as The Circumfrence of Earth
The length of The Circumfrence of Earth is about 40,075.014 kilometers.
(Equatorial)
The Earth — not a perfect sphere, but rather an oblate spheroid with bulged middle — has an Equatorial circumference of approximately 40,075.014 kilometers. The first airplane trip around the circumference of the Earth (with a few stops along the way), was completed in 1924 by the United States Army Air Service, and took 175 days.
It's about 1,500,000 times as wide as a Strand of Hair
The width of a Strand of Hair is about 0.0000000990 kilometers.
(average)
A strand of human hair averages 99 µm (micrometers), with blond hair being the finest and black hair the thickest. On a healthy scalp, each strand of hair will last up to 6 years.
It's about 2,000,000 times as tall as a sheet of Paper
The height of a sheet of Paper is about 0.0000001000 kilometers.
(for US Letter, a.k.a. ANSI A; 215.9mm by 279.4mm (8.5 in x 11 in); 20lb)
A single sheet of 20 lb, 8.5 inch x 11 inch paper is just 0.0000001000 kilometers thick. This style of paper weighs a mere 5 g per sheet.
It's about 0.0000005 times as long as The Distance from Earth to the Moon
The length of The Distance from Earth to the Moon is about 384,436.50 kilometers.
(a.k.a. Luna) (median of semi-major axis, or apigee, and semi-minor axes, or perigee)
The orbit of the Moon around the Earth is elliptical, with an average distance of 384,436.5 km from center-to-center. About 428.376 kg of moon rock have been cataloged on the Earth, from the American Apollo and Soviet Luna Programs, and from samples that have been extracted from meteorites.
It's about 20,000,000 times as long as a Red Blood Cell
The length of a Red Blood Cell is about 0.00000000750 kilometers.
(a.k.a. RBCs, a.k.a. haematids, a.k.a. erythrocyte, a.k.a. erythroid cells, a.k.a. red blood corpuscles)
An average Red Blood Cell measures 7.5 µm (micrometers) in diameter. An average human has 20 - 30 trillion red blood cells in their body and each cell completes a circulatory lap in about 20 seconds.
It's about 30,000,000 times as long as a Cell's Nucleus
The length of a Cell's Nucleus is about 0.00000000600 kilometers.
(for animal cell)
The nucleus of an animal cell measures an average of 0.00000000600 kilometers. The nucleus is the largest organelle in these cells, accounting for about 10% of the cell's total volume.
It's about 85,000,000 times as long as a Bacterium
The length of a Bacterium is about 0.00000000200 kilometers.
(Escherichia coli) (rod-shaped configuration)
An rod-shaped E. coli bacterium measures about 0.00000000200 kilometers in length. A staple of biology labs, E. coli can reproduce in as little as twenty minutes.
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