Cubic mile

A cubic mile (abbreviation: cu mi or mi³[1]) is an imperial and US customary (non-SI non-metric) unit of volume, used in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. It is defined as the volume of a cube with sides of 1 mile (63360 inches, 5280 feet, 1760 yards or ~1.609 kilometres) in length.

Conversions

1 cubic mile	=	512	cubic furlongs
	=	5451776000	cubic yards
	=	147197952000	cubic feet
	=	3379200	acre-feet
	=	4.168181825440579584	cubic kilometres
	≈	916871822916	imperial gallons
	≈	1101117140000	US liquid gallons
	≈	114608977865	imperial bushels
	≈	118282962000	US bushels
	≈	26217074762	crude barrels

See also

Square mile
Orders of magnitude (volume) for a comparison with other volumes
- Orders of magnitude (one cubic metre to one cubic kilometre)
- Orders_of_magnitude_(one_cubic_kilometre_to_one_cubic_megametre)
Conversion of units#Volume
Cube (arithmetic)

References

NIST Guide to the SI - B.8 Factors for Units Listed Alphabetically

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