20 kilometers in meters

Result

The conversion result is: 20 kilometers is equivalent to 20000 meters.^[1]

Conversion formula
How to convert 20 kilometers to meters?

We know (by definition) that: 1 km = 1000 m.

We can set up a proportion to solve for the number of meters.

1 km / 20 km = 1000 m / x m

Now, we cross multiply to solve for our unknown x:

x m = (20 km / 1 km) * 1000 m → x m = 20000 m

Conclusion:

20 km = 20000 m

Conversion in the opposite direction

The inverse of the conversion factor is that 1 meter is equal to 5e-05 times 20 kilometers.

It can also be expressed as: 20 kilometers is equal to 1 / 5e-05 meters.

Approximation

An approximate numerical result would be: twenty kilometers is about twenty thousand meters, or alternatively, a meter is about zero times twenty kilometers.

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.

Meters

"The metre (international spelling) or meter (American spelling), (from the Greek noun μέτρον, \"measure\") is the base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI). The SI unit symbol is m. The metre is defined as the length of the path travelled by light in a vacuum in 1/299792458 seconds."

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.

Result

Conversion formula How to convert 20 kilometers to meters?

Conversion in the opposite direction

Approximation

Conversion formula
How to convert 20 kilometers to meters?