Length of the Mississippi River

Length of the Mississippi River (3,730 km)

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If Length of the Mississippi River (3,730 km) was a standard unit ...

  • Circumference of Saturn (366,000 km)...more would be 100 x Length of the Mississippi River
  • Circumference of Venus (37,700 km)...more would be 10 x Length of the Mississippi River
  • Range of an Airbus A380 (15,200 km)...more would be 4 x Length of the Mississippi River
  • Length of the Trans-Siberian Railway from Moscow to Vladivostok (9,290 km)...more would be 2.5 x Length of the Mississippi River
  • Length of the 2016 Dakar Rally (9,240 km)...more would be 2.5 x Length of the Mississippi River
  • Length of the Murray-Darling River in Australia (3,670 km)...more would be about as big as Length of the Mississippi River
  • Length of the island of Madagascar, North to South (1,500 km)...more would be 2/5 of Length of the Mississippi River
  • Length of the M25 Orbital motorway around London (188 km)...more would be 1/20 of Length of the Mississippi River
  • Length of the Champs Elysee (1.9 km)...more would be 1/2000 of Length of the Mississippi River
  • Length of a TI Class oil tanker (380 m)...more would be 1/10000 of Length of the Mississippi River

Is That A Big Number? - The Book

Yes, there's now a book based on these numbers. Oxford University Press: July 2018.

Click here to learn more about it.

Click here for Podcast: Andrew Elliott interviewed for New Books Network.

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