Enter the ratio you're interested in:

Try ratios like: '1 : 10', '5 to 6', '10' (will be taken as 10 : 1), '1000000'

What does a ratio of 100 : 1 look like?

Length of the Las Vegas Strip (6.8 km)...

: Longest flight of a paper airplane (69.1 m) ...

Length of the Indus River (3,180 km)...

: Narrowest width of the English Channel (32.3 km) ...

Length of the M25 Orbital motorway around London (188 km)...

: Length of the Champs Elysee (1.9 km) ...

Length of Tiananmen square in Beijing (880 m)...

: Men's World Long Jump Record (1991) (8.95 m) ...

Longest golf drive (471 m)...

: Length overall of a `470` racing dinghy (4.7 m) ...

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