What is the unit of length of a foot?
Foot. A foot (symbol: ft) is a unit of length. It is equal to 0.3048 m, and used in the imperial system of units and United States customary units. The unit of foot derived from the human foot. It is subdivided into 12 inches.
How many miles is 1 foot?
The conversion factor from feet to miles is 0.00018939393939394, which means that 1 foot is equal to 0.00018939393939394 miles: To convert 500 feet into miles we have to multiply 500 by the conversion factor in order to get the length amount from feet to miles.
What is the length of a mile called?
The mile of 5,280 feet is called land mile or the statute mile to distinguish it from the nautical mile (1,852 meters, about 6,076.1 feet). Use of the mile as a unit of measurement is now largely confined to the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada. Source: Wikipedia Topic: mile.