1000 centimeters in kilometers

Conversion formula
How to convert 1000 centimeters to kilometers?

We know (by definition) that: $1\mathrm{cm}=1e-05\mathrm{km}$

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

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

Conclusion: 1000 ⁢ cm = 0.01 ⁢ km

Conversion in the opposite direction

The inverse of the conversion factor is that 1 kilometer is equal to 100 times 1000 centimeters.

It can also be expressed as: 1000 centimeters is equal to $\frac{1}{\mathrm{100}}$ kilometers.

Approximation

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