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This quick and easy calculator will convert Leagues (leagues) to Millimetres (mm) and show formula, brief history on the units and quick maths for the conversion.

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Quick Reference for Converting Leagues to Millimetres

Formula
mm = leagues x 5556000
Quick Rough Maths
To get the Millimetres, multiply the number of Leagues by 5.6 million
Leagues (leagues) in 1 Millimetre
There are 0 Leagues in 1 Millimetre
Millimetres (mm) in 1 League
There are 5556000 Millimetres in 1 League

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).

Millimetre
/ˈmɪlɪmiːtə/
Symbol: mm
Unit System: SI

What is the Millimetre?

The millimetre (American spelling millimeter) is a unit of length and is a multiple of the SI unit metre. It uses the symbol mm.

There are 1000 mm in 1 m and 10 mm in 1 cm. From this one can derive that there are 0.03937 in.

The millimetre is sometimes verbally abbreviated to 'mil' - which can cause confusion in the US as there is a unit there that means thousandth of an inch.


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