Convert Leagues (leagues) into other units of length e.g. m, cm, km, ft, in, ly, μm, mm, mi, yd

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Unit Information

League
/liːɡ/
Symbol: leagues
Unit System: None

What is the League?

The league is a ancient unit of length that doesn't below to a unit system. Its symbol is simply - league.

It was originally an ancient Celtic unit as well as being common in Latin America and meant the distance "a person could walk in an hour". It is no longer a recognised unit in any nation.

Once it started to be quantified, in Argentina (legua) it represented 5.572 km, in England it was quantified as 3 miles and at sea a league is 3 nautical miles (3.452 miles).