5 kilometers in centimeters


Conversion

5 kilometers is equivalent to 500000 centimeters.[1]


Conversion formula
How to convert 5 kilometers to centimeters?

We know (by definition) that: 1km = 100000cm

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

1 km 5 km = 100000 cm x cm

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

x cm = 5 km 1 km * 100000 cm x cm = 500000 cm

Conclusion: 5 km = 500000 cm


5 kilometers is equivalent to 500000 centimeters

Conversion in the opposite direction

The inverse of the conversion factor is that 1 centimeter is equal to 2e-06 times 5 kilometers.

It can also be expressed as: 5 kilometers is equal to 1 2e-06 centimeters.


Approximation

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



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.

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