Nautical mile
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This article is about distance measurement at sea. For distance measurement on land, see mile. For the U.S. unit based on the Equator, see geographical mile.
A nautical mile is a unit of length used in air, marine, and space navigation, and for the definition of territorial waters.[2][3][4] Historically, it was defined as the meridian arc length corresponding to one minute (1/60 of a degree) of latitude at the equator, so that Earth's polar circumference is very near to 21,600 nautical miles (that is 60 minutes × 360 degrees). Today the international nautical mile is defined as 1,852 metres (about 6,076 ft; 1.151 mi).[5] The derived unit of speed is the knot, one nautical mile per hour.
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Unit of | length |
Symbol | M, NM,[lower-alpha 1] or nmi |
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1 M, NM,[lower-alpha 2] or nmi in ... | ... is equal to ... |
metre | 1,852[1] |
foot | ≈ 6,076 |
statute mile | ≈ 1.151 |
cable | 10 |
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