what is the difference between a nautical mile and land mile?
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Statute (land) mile = 5,280 feet\n\nNautical mile = 6,080 feet\n\nBut why two kinds of miles?...The statute mile is used on land. The nautical mile is used on water. The nautical mile is usually used in determining distances travelled by ships...The nautical mile is determined by the length of the arc on the Earth's surface (along the equator or great circle) produced by 1 minute angle (NOTE: 60 min. = 1 degree). Remember, angle around the Earth is 360 degrees.\n\nFor trivia...distance around the Earth along the equator, therefore, is 21,600 nautical miles (1 naut. mile per min. x 60 min. per degree x 360 degrees around the Earth).
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one does not exist IN the other, both are dimensions that we travel though, we are always moving though space and time. an analogy on the earth would be asking if the lines of latitude exsist in the grid of longitude or if latitude is the grid and longitude fits inside, there is no answer to that question, but we have no problem moving though latitude and longitude.
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I'd say a "country mile" is "longer" - both expressions are meant to be exaggerations. See the link below about "New York minute," which is supposed to exaggerate how quickly something happens, whereas "country mile" means "a long way."
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1 nautical mile = 1852 meters\n\n1000 meters = 1 kilometer\n\n1852 meters = 1,852 kilometers\n\none thing more: 10 cable = 1 nm -> 1 cable = 185,2 meters
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5280 feet in a mile\n1760 yards in a mile
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One mile and 2720 feet.\n\nThere are 5,280 feet in a mile.\nSo, 8000 divided by 5,280 is one mile and 2720 feet.
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A nautical mile, whether on land or at sea, is set equal to a minute of latitude (there are 60 minutes in a degree). It is used at sea because it makes it easier to measure changes in latitude. It is roughly equal to 1.152 miles.
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1 mile = 1.609 km\n5 miles = 8.045 km
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what is the difference between the two
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1.15 statue miles. Traveling in knots means you are going faster than in miles per hour (Statue miles)
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Most land navigation activities focus on a very small portion of the globe at any one time. Typically the area of interest to an outdoorsman is less than 20 miles on a side. This focus on a small area allows us to abbreviate UTM coordinates.\n\nThe zone information and the digits representing 1,000,000m, and 100,000m are dropped. The 1m, 10m and 100m digits are used only to the extent of accuracy desired.\n\nA GPS unit might read\n\n10 S 0559741\n    4282182\n\nUsing a notation similar to the one found on a USGS topographic map, this would be written as:\n\nZone 10 S 559741 mE. 4282182 mN.\n\nAn abbreviated format for the same coordinates would look like:\n\n 59 82 \n  Describes a 1000m by 1000m square. \n \n597 821\n  Describes a 100m by 100m square. \n \n5974 8218\n  Describes a 10m by 10m square. \n \n59741 82182\n  Describes a 1m by 1m square. \n\n\nThe 100m abbreviated format, 597 821, and the 10m abbreviated format, 5974 8218, are the most commonly used.\n\nNotice that the easting is reported first, followed by the northing. Remember the phrase "read right up" to help you remember to read the easting from left to right, followed by the northing from the bottom up.\n\nAlso notice that when you abbreviate coordinates you should not do any rounding. 0559651 becomes 596 not 597. This ensures that your position is still within the reported square. As accuracy decreases, the square gets bigger. \n\nI hope this is what you are looking for.
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8470 miles (13632 km) (7361 nautical miles)
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A mile is a unit of measure which can be empirically verified.  A country mile is a figure of speech which means "a long, unprecise distance".  For example, "I beat him by a country mile" means that the speaker was an imprecise, but long distance ahead.  However, I am pretty sure that it is neither longer nor shorter than a "far piece" pronounced "fur piece" where I hail from.\n\nI'm sure there is some history to this expression and someone will enlighten us with a link.
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History:\n\nThroughout history many units of length named mile have been used, with widely differing definitions, originating with the Roman mile of approximately 1479 metres. A Roman mile consisted of 1000 "double steps", or two strides by a Roman soldier, each such double stride being called a passus having a length of approximately 2.4 feet. The word mile itself has been derived from the words mille passus (plural milia passuum), a thousand paces. Along the roads built by the Romans throughout Europe, it was common to erect a stone every mile to announce the distance to Rome, the so-called milestones. The noun milliarium (plural milliaria), designating a milestone, was also used as a figurative alternative for mile. In navigation, the geographical mile was commonly used, defined as 1 minute of arc along the Earth's equator, approximately equal to 1855 metres. The name statute mile goes back to Queen Elizabeth I of England who redefined the mile from 5000 feet to 8 furlongs (5280 feet) by statute in 1593. When the international mile became legal in mid-1959, the survey mile was retained for measurements derived from U.S. cadastral surveys. In Denmark and most of Germany the mile in the 19th century was an approximately 7.5 km geographical mile (determined by 4 minutes of arc) specified by Ole Rømer. In parts of Germany there also existed an exact 7.5 km metric mile variant, but it mostly went out of use at the beginning of the 20th century. The Ole Rømer mile was for a long time used as a sea mile in Scandinavia, but was in the middle of the 20th century replaced by the international nautical mile. The international nautical mile is still often referred to by traditionalist Scandinavians as a quarter mile. \n\nDefinitions:\n\nThe meanings of mile that are commonly used today are: \nThe international mile is the one typically meant when the word mile is used without qualification. It is defined to be precisely m or 5280 international feet. It is used in the United States and the United Kingdom as part of the Imperial system of units. The international mile is equivalent to 8 furlongs, or 80 chains, or 1760 international yards. \nThe U.S. survey mile or statute mile is precisely equal to 6336/3937 kilometres or 5280 U.S. survey feet, approximately 1609.347 metres. One international mile is precisely equal to 0.999 998 survey miles. The survey mile is used by the United States Public Land Survey System. \nThe international nautical mile is defined to be exactly 1852 metres. It is used universally for aviation, naval and maritime purposes and originated from the geographical mile. \nIn Norway and Sweden, a distance of 10 kilometres is most commonly referred to as a mile.\n\nInformation:\n\nA mile is any of several unit s of distance , or, as physicists say, of length . Today, one mile is mainly equal to about 1609 metre s on land and 1852 metres at sea and in the air, but see below for the details. Current definitions...\n\nA mile is any of several units of distance, or, as physicists say, of length. Today, one mile is mainly equal to about 1609 metres on land and 1852 metres at sea and in the air.
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A "long" three yards is actually longer than a "short" three. "Long three" is used when the distance needed is slightly over three yards, but less than four.\n\nA "short" three yards is if the distance needed is almost three yards exactly, or perhaps even slightly less.
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kilometer. one kilometer = about 0.62 mile
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It's a term used for one kilometer or 0.62 miles. It's called a click because on a distance counter, every kilometer it clicks.