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Which metric system for weight am I?
one hundred ares. 1 hectare is equivalent to 10 000 square metres or 2.471 acres
Which metric system for weight am I?
a unit of area equal to 100 sq metres or 119.599 sq yards; one hundredth of a hectare
Which metric system for weight am I?
one hundredth of a metre
Which metric system for weight am I?
the basic SI unit of length; the length of the path travelled by light in free space during a time interval of 1/299 792 458 of a second. In 1983 this definition replaced the previous one based on krypton-86, which in turn had replaced the definition based on the platinum-iridium metre bar kept in Paris
Which metric system for weight am I?
one thousand metres, equal to 0.621371 miles
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British English: kilometre
/kɪˈlɒmɪtə; ˈkɪləˌmiːtə/ NOUN
A kilometre is a metric unit of distance or length. One kilometre is a thousand metres, and is equal to 0.62 miles.
- American English: kilometer /ˈkɪləmitər, kɪˈlɒmɪtər/
- Arabic: كِيلومِتْر
- Brazilian Portuguese: quilômetro
- Chinese: 公里
- Croatian: kilometar
- Czech: kilometr
- Danish: kilometer
- Dutch: kilometer
- European Spanish: kilómetro
- Finnish: kilometri
- French: kilomètre
- German: Kilometer
- Greek: χιλιόμετρο
- Italian: chilometro
- Japanese: キロメートル
- Korean: 킬로미터
- Norwegian: kilometer
- Polish: kilometr
- European Portuguese: quilómetro
- Romanian: kilometru
- Russian: километр
- Latin American Spanish: kilómetro
- Swedish: kilometer
- Thai: กิโลเมตร (หน่วยวัดระยะในระบบเมตริก)
- Turkish: kilometre
- Ukrainian: кілометр
- Vietnamese: kilomet
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