Mile
Comparison table
A comparison of the different lengths for a "mile", in different countries and at different times in history, is given in the table below.

Mile

Section Title: Comparison table
Table Section Text: A comparison of the different lengths for a "mile", in different countries and at different times in history, is given in the table below.

Length (m)	Name	Country used	From	To	Definition	Remarks

960–1,152	talmudic mil	Israel	Biblical and Talmudic units of measurement

1,480	mille passus, milliarium	Roman Empire	Ancient Roman units of measurement

1,486.6	miglio	Sicily

1,524	London mile	England

1,609.3426	(statute) mile	Great Britain	1592	1959	1,760 yards	Over the course of time, the length of a yard changed several times and consequently so did the English, and from 1824, the imperial mile.

1,609.344	mile	international	1959	today	1,760 yards	Until 1 July 1959 the imperial mile was a standard length worldwide. The length given in metres is exact.

1,609.3472	(statute) mile	United States	1893	today	1,760 yards	From 1959 also called the U.S. Survey Mile.

1,820	Italy

1,852	nautical mile	international	today	approx. 1 minute of arc	Measured at a circumference of 40,000 km. Abbreviation: NM, nm

1,852.3	(for comparison)	1 meridian minute

1,853.181	nautical mile	Turkey

1,855.4	(for comparison)	1 equatorial minute	Although the NM was defined on the basis of the minute, it varies from the equatorial minute, because at that time the circumferences of the equator was only able to be estimated at 40,000 km

2,065	Portugal

2,220	Gallo-Roman league	Gallo-Roman culture	1.5 miles	Under the reign of Emperor Septimius Severus, this replaced the Roman mile as the official unit of distance in the Gallic and Germanic provinces, although there were regional and temporal variations.

2,470	Sardinia, Piemont

2,622	Scotland

2,880	Ireland

3,780	Flanders

3,898	French lieue (post league)	France	2,000 "body lengths"

4,000	general or metric league

4,000	legue	Guatemala

4,190	legue	Mexico	= 2,500 tresas = 5,000 varas

4,444.8	landleuge	​1⁄25° of a circle of longitude

4,452.2	lieue commune	France	Units of measurement in France before the French Revolution

4,513	legue	Paraguay

4,513	legua	Chile, (Guatemala, Haiti)	= 36 cuadros = 5400 varas

4,808	Switzerland

4,828	English land league	England	3 miles

4,800 4,900	Germanic rasta, also doppelleuge (double league)

5,000	légua nova	Portugal

5,196	legua	Bolivia	= 40 ladres

5,152	legua argentina	Argentina, Buenos Aires	= 6,000 varas

5,154	legue	Uruguay

5,200	Bolivian legua	Bolivia

5,370	legue	Venezuela

5,500	Portuguese legua	Portugal

5,510	legue	Ecuador

5,510	Ecuadorian legua	Ecuador

5,532.5	Landleuge (state league)	Prussia

5,540	legue	Honduras

5,556	Seeleuge (nautical league)	​1⁄20° of a circle of longitude 3 nautical miles

5,570	legua	Spain and Chile	Spanish customary units

5,572	legua	Colombia	= 3 Millas

5,572.7	legue	Peru	= 20,000 feet

5,572.7	legua antigua old league	Spain	= 3 millas = 15,000 feet

5,590	légua	Brazil	= 5,000 varas = 2,500 bracas

5,600	Brazilian legua	Brazil

5,685	Fersah (Turkish league)	Ottoman Empire	1933	4 Turkish miles	Derived from Persian Parasang.

5,840	Dutch mile	Holland

6,170	milltir	Wales	13thC	9000 cam ( = 27 000 troedfedd = 243 000 inches)	eclipsed by the conquest of Wales by Edward I

6,197	légua antiga	Portugal	= 3 milhas = 24 estadios

6,240	Persian legue	Persia

6,277	Luxembourg

6,280	Belgium

6,687.24	legua nueva new league, since 1766	Spain	= 8,000 varas

6,797	Landvermessermeile (state survey mile)	Saxony

7,400	Netherlands

7,409	(for comparison)	4 meridian minutes

7,419.2	Kingdom of Hanover

7,419.4	Duchy of Brunswick

7,420.4 7,414.9	Bavaria

7,420.439	geographic mile	​1⁄15 equatorial grads[dubious – discuss]

7,421.6	(for comparison)	4 equatorial minutes

7,448.7	Württemberg

7,450	Hohenzollern

7,467.6	Russia	7 verst	Obsolete Russian units of measurement

7,480	Bohemia

7,500	kleine / neue Postmeile (small/new postal mile)	Saxony	1840	German Empire, North German Confederation, Grand Duchy of Hesse, Russia

7,532.5	Land(es)meile (German state mile)	Denmark, Hamburg, Prussia	primarily for Denmark defined by Ole Rømer

7,585.9	Postmeile (post mile)	Austro-Hungary	Austrian units of measurement

7,850	Milă	Romania

8,800	Schleswig-Holstein

8,888.89	Baden

9,062	mittlere Post- / Polizeimeile (middle post mile or police mile)	Saxony	1722

9,206.3	Electorate of Hesse

9,261.4	(for comparison)	5 meridian minutes

9,277	(for comparison)	5 equatorial minutes

9,323	alte Landmeile (old state mile)	Hanover	1836

9,347	alte Landmeile (old state mile)	Hanover	1836

9,869.6	Oldenburg

10,000	metric mile, Scandinavian mile	Norway, Sweden	still commonly used today, e. g. for road distances.; equates to the myriameter

10,044	große Meile (great mile)	Westphalia

10,670	Finland

10.688.54	mil	Sweden	1889	In normal speech, "mil" means a Scandinavian mile of 10 km.

11,113.7	(for comparison)	6 meridian minutes

11,132.4	(for comparison)	6 equatorial minutes

11,299	mil	Norway	was equivalent to 3000 Rhenish rods.

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