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

What does a ratio of 1000 : 1 look like?

Length of Central Park (NYC) (4 km)...

: Length of a classic Volkswagen `Beetle` car (4.08 m) ...

Width of Australia (4,000 km)...

: Length of Central Park (NYC) (4 km) ...

Height of the Tres Hermanas waterall in Peru (914 m)...

: Height of a tennis net at the centre (914 mm) ...

Circumference of Pluto (7,230 km)...

: Length of the longest canal tunnel (Rove Tunnel in France) (7.12 km) ...

Length of the Kazakhstan-Russia border (6,850 km)...

: Length of the Oxford-Cambridge boat race (6.8 km) ...

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