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Mile
The distance between Westminster and London is 1 mile
Unit system	English unit
Unit of	length
Symbol	mi or m
1 mi in ...	... is equal to ...
SI units	1609.344 m
imperial/US units
nautical units	0.86898 nmi

A mile is a unit of length.

There are many different kinds of mile but mile on its own usually means the statute mile.

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Statute mile

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In the US and the UK the word mile usually means the statute mile.

Nautical mile

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The nautical mile is used for sea or air travel.

The nautical mile was originally defined as one minute of arc along a line of longitude of the Earth. There are 60 minutes of arc in one degree or arc (60' = 1°).

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So there were 10,800 nautical miles from the North Pole to the South Pole.

Now the nautical mile is defined as 1,852 metres.

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