kilometre

/ kɪˈlɒmɪtə, ˌkɪləʊˈmɛtrɪk, ˈkɪləˌmiːtə /

noun

1. km. one thousand metres, equal to 0.621371 miles

Other Word Forms

• kilometric adjective

Example Sentences

The bus was travelling from the southern city of Gqeberha, around 1,500 kilometres away, and its passengers included Malawians and Zimbabweans who were working in South Africa.

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Shortly before midnight, just 25 kilometres from Mbandaka, the vessel carrying the two young men capsized.

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As the range of the drones increases, the front line has become more like a strip -- an area that some Ukrainians call the "lethal zone" -- about 20 kilometres wide.

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Militants also struck the town of Nangade, about 100 kilometres west of Palma, in the early hours of the morning, a villager told AFP anonymously.

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From there, the boom of Israelis air strikes and artillery could be heard just a few kilometres away in Gaza, where witnesses said the intense Israeli bombardment continued.

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