1 meter in kilometers

Result

The conversion result is: 1 meter is equivalent to 0.001 kilometers.^[1]

Conversion in the opposite direction

The inverse of the conversion factor is that 1 kilometer is equal to 1000 times 1 meter.

It can also be expressed as: 1 meter is equal to 1 / 1000 kilometers.

Approximation

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

Units involved

This is how the units in this conversion are defined:

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."

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.

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.