- 1 Old English mile 2.1 km
- 1 Roman mile estimated at 1479 m
- 1 Statute mile 1.609 km
- 1 Nautical mile 1853 m
- 1 Scandinavian mile 10 km
- 1 Geographical mile 7.4 km
- 1 Metric mile 1500 m
- 1 Irish mile 2.048 km
We talk about
- milestones in a life
- a mile a minute
- going the extra mile
- walking a mile in someone else’s shoes
- a miss is as good as a mile
- run a mile
- give someone an inch and they will take a mile
….yet only three countries in the world don’t use the metric system: the United States, Liberia, and Myanmar.