Cubic mile
Rarely used unit of volume
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A cubic mile (abbreviation: cu mi or mi3[1]) is an imperial and US customary (non-SI non-metric) unit of volume, used in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. It is defined as the volume of a cube with sides of 1 mile (1.6 km) length, giving a volume of 1 cubic mile (4.2 km3).
UnitofVolume
Symbolmi3, cu mi
| cubic mile | |
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| Unit system | Imperial and US customary |
| Unit of | Volume |
| Symbol | mi3, cu mi |
| Conversions | |
| 1 mi3 in ... | ... is equal to ... |
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Conversions
| 1 cubic mile | = | 512 | cubic furlongs |
| = | 5451776000 | cubic yards | |
| = | 147197952000 | cubic feet | |
| = | 3379200 | acre-feet | |
| = | 4.168181825440579584 | cubic kilometres | |
| ≈ | 916871822916 | imperial gallons | |
| ≈ | 1101117140000 | US liquid gallons | |
| ≈ | 114608977865 | imperial bushels | |
| ≈ | 118282962000 | US bushels | |
| ≈ | 26217074762 | crude barrels |
See also
- Square mile
- Orders of magnitude for a comparison with other volumes
- Conversion of units § Volume
- Cube (arithmetic)