1 kilometer in inches

Result

The conversion result is: 1 kilometer is equivalent to 39370.0787401575 inches.^[1]

Conversion in the opposite direction

The inverse of the conversion factor is that 1 inch is equal to 2.54e-05 times 1 kilometer.

It can also be expressed as: 1 kilometer is equal to 1 / 2.54e-05 inches.

Approximation

An approximate numerical result would be: one kilometer is about thirty-nine thousand, three hundred and seventy point zero eight inches, or alternatively, a inch is about zero times one kilometer.

Units involved

This is how the units in this conversion are defined:

Kilometers

The kilometre or kilometer (American spelling) is a unit of length in the metric system, equal to one thousand metres (kilo being the SI prefix for 1000). It is now the measurement unit used officially for expressing distances between geographical places on land in most of the world; notable exceptions are the United States and the road network of the United Kingdom where the statute mile is the official unit used.

Inches

The inch (abbreviation: in or ″) is a unit of length in the imperial and United States customary systems of measurement now formally equal to 1⁄36 yard but usually understood as 1⁄12 of a foot. Derived from the Roman uncia (twelfth), inch is also sometimes used to translate related units in other measurement systems, usually understood as deriving from the width of the human thumb. Traditional standards for the exact length of an inch have varied in the past, but since the adoption of the international yard during the 1950s and 1960s it has been based on the metric system and defined as exactly 2.54 cm.

Footnotes

[1] The precision is 15 significant digits (fourteen digits to the right of the decimal point).

Results may contain small errors due to the use of floating point arithmetic.