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Meanings of kilometres in English

Russian
км
Portuguese
quilómetros
Spanish
km
Catalan
kilòmetre
Wikidata

Unit of length equal to 1,000 meters.

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        Usage of kilometres in English
        1
        It's moving west southwest at a rate of six kilometres per hour.
        News.com.au
        2
        The situation isn't much cheerier 16 kilometres away from the impact either.
        News.com.au
        3
        Photo: Supplied Two separate fires several kilometres apart started on 13 February.
        Radio NZ
        4
        Both are several kilometres from the coast, and therefore on higher ground.
        The Guardian
        5
        Others walked as far as 20 kilometres through swirling ash to safety.
        Radio NZ
        6
        The new native woodlands will cover over nine square kilometres of land.
        BBC
        7
        Had we more time, we could easily continue for another two kilometres.
        The Guardian
        8
        Pokeno is located off State Highway One, 53 kilometres south of Auckland.
        Radio NZ
        9
        Mr Crisp said firefighters were battling hundreds of kilometres of fire edges.
        News.com.au
        10
        Without a doubt, this suffering is being felt thousands of kilometres away.
        The Guardian
        11
        Al knew all about kilometres; they were what the French called miles.
        The Neutronium Alchemist
        12
        They clashed at a closing speed of over seventy kilometres per second.
        The Reality Dysfunction
        13
        The wormhole interstice opened a million kilometres above the sun's south pole.
        The Naked God
        14
        Dinner was kilometres long; and the conversation turned on Rome and Paris.
        Cæsar or Nothing
        15
        Ironically, the meeting took place just a few kilometres from Central Station.
        The South African
        16
        Thirty kilometres to the place where Lione had last been seen alive.
        Engineering Infinity
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