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Calculate your height in cm or feet and inches using our height converter and chart, with conversion for imperial and US units to metric units.
- CM to FT
Full charts are available further down the page, and we also...
- Kilos to Stone & Lb
If you're trying to calculate your weight, you may wish to...
- Height Charts
Use these height charts to look up common height...
- CM to FT
Mar 23, 2020 · Welcome to how to Convert Metric Units of Length with Mr. J! Need help with mm, cm, m, and km conversions? You're in the right place!
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- Math with Mr. J
Watch this video to learn how to convert between different metric units of length, such as millimeters, centimeters, meters, and kilometers.
- 3 min
- Sal Khan
Free online length converter - converts between 93 units of length, including meter [m], kilometer [km], decimeter [dm], centimeter [cm], etc. Also, explore many other unit converters or learn more about length unit conversions.
- What Is Conversion of units?
- Importance of Mathematical Conversions
- Unit Conversion Table
The use of a unit depends on the situation, such as the area of a room is expressed in meters, but the length of a pencil is expressed in centimetres and its thickness in mm. Thus, we need to convert one unit to another. Before understanding the concept of conversion of units, we need to understand the relationship between units.
In order to have accuracy and avoid confusion in measurement, we need to convert one unit to another. For instance, we do not measure the length of a pencil in kilometres. In such a case, one has to convert kilometre (km) to centimetre (cm). Generally, the conversion of one unit to another unit of the same quantity is performed using multiplicative...
Let’s have a look at some basic unit conversion of mass and length. From the table above, we have seen values of units of length are not the same, i.e. 1 km ≠ 1m. When 1 km is equal to 1000 m, we need 1000 meters to make up one kilometre. This makes a kilometre a bigger unit than a meter. This is same for 1 kg = 1000g. Conversion of units can be do...
Our area calculators will allow you to convert between a range of different areas including sq. km, sq. m, sq. cm, acres, hectares, sq. inches, sq. feet, sq. yards and sq. miles.
Convert instantly between centimeters, feet, inches, meters, kilometers, miles and other metric and imperial units of length and distance.
