Any greater precision depends more on choice of standard than on more careful measurement: the length of the equator in the World Geodetic System WGS-84 is 40, 075, 016. 6856 m which makes the geographical mile 1855. 3248 m, while the International Astronomical Union standard IAU-2000 takes the equator to be 40, 075, 035. 5351 m making the geographical mile 1855. 3257 m, almost a millimetre longer.

The value formerly used in the United States was 6 080. 20 feet = 1 nautical ( geographical or sea ) mile.

While debating what became the Land Ordinance of 1785, Thomas Jefferson's committee wanted to divide the public lands in the west into “ hundreds of ten geographical miles square, each mile containing 6086 and 4-10ths of a foot ” and “ sub-divided into lots of one mile square each, or 850 and 4-10ths of an acre ”.

The Danish and German geographical mile ( geografisk mil and geographische Meile or geographische Landmeile, respectively ) is 4 minutes of arc, and was defined as approximately 7421. 5 metres by the astronomer Ole Rømer of Denmark.

In Norway and Sweden, this 4 minute geographical mile was mainly used at sea ( sjømil ), up to the beginning of the 20th century.

One geographical mile, defined as one minute of arc on the equator, equals 1, 855. 32571922 m. One nautical mile is one minute of astronomical latitude.

It developed from the sea mile and the related geographical mile.

The geographical mile is the length of one minute of longitude along the Equator, about 1855. 4 m on the International ( 1924 ) Spheroid or about 1855. 325 m on the WGS 84 ellipsoid.

The term " geographical mile " has also been used to refer to the mean sea mile, which would later become the international nautical mile.

It is now the measurement unit used officially for expressing distances between geographical places on land in most of the world ; notable exceptions are the United States and the United Kingdom where the statute mile is the official unit used.

In 1726, the Herrenhäuser Allee ( Herrenhausen alley ) was planted just through the gardens, connecting Hanover with the royal palace and gardens of Herrenhausen in the boroughs of the city ; it is almost exactly one geographical mile ( 1. 85 km ) long, and consists of four rows of lime trees.

They selected the present site of DeWitt which is within one half mile of the geographical center of the county.

On May 7, 1784, the committee reported “ An ordinance for ascertaining the mode of locating and disposing of lands in the western territories, and for other purposes therein mentioned .” The ordinance required the land be divided into “ hundreds of ten geographical miles square, each mile containing 6086 and 4-10ths of a foot ” and “ sub-divided into lots of one mile square each, or 850 and 4-10ths of an acre ”, numbered starting in the northwest corner, proceeding from west to east, and east to west consecutively.

* Mil ( миля ), geographical mile

In 1971 he proposed a ban on oil drilling on the city's coastline one-half mile inland from the shore " for both esthetic and geographical safety reasons.

It is the urge to obtain a list as free of geographical and cultural conditioning as possible.

Logically, then, the first principle of the plan must be that it is not rigidly oriented toward any geographical area.

The secretary's greatest achievement is perhaps the rekindling of NATO realization that East-West friction, wherever it take place around the globe, is in essence the general conflict between two entirely different societies, and must be treated as such without regard to geographical distance or lack of apparent connection.

Asia Minor ( from, Mikrá Asía, small Asia ) is a geographical location at the westernmost protrusion of Asia, also called Anatolia, and corresponds to the western two thirds of the Asian part of Turkey.

They reasoned that if all three families had a common ancestor, we should expect losses to happen at random, not only at the geographical margins of the family, and that the observed pattern is consistent with borrowing.

This traditional geographical definition is used, for example, in the latest edition of Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary, as well as the archeological community.

American Samoa, located within the geographical region of Oceania, is one of only two possessions of the United States in the Southern Hemisphere, the other being Jarvis Island.

The meaning of the word American in the English language varies according to the historical, geographical, and political context in which it is used.

He was considered the 19th century's leading expert on the geographical distribution of animal species and is sometimes called the " father of biogeography ".

The geographical area of the thirteen colonies is often referred to simply as " America ".

It has the widest geographical and racial distribution of all the official languages of South Africa, and is widely spoken and understood as a second or third language.

Celsius conducted many geographical measurements for the Swedish General map, and was one of earliest to note that much of Scandinavia is slowly rising above sea level, a continuous process which has been occurring since the melting of the ice from the latest ice age.

The rigidity of his geographical strategy may be gathered from the prescription that this principle is never to be departed from.

The dominant geographical feature in the area is Cairn Conmheall, which rises to 541 metres.

Some Anglican suffragans are given the responsibility for a geographical area within the diocese ( for example, the Bishop of Stepney is an area bishop within the Diocese of London ).

Larger geographical areas, called Territories, are led by a Territorial Commander, who is the highest-ranking officer in that Territory.

It is in fact likely that, after the region took on the name of its early inhabitants, later settlers were also known by the accepted geographical name.

Whether these were consisted only of Goths is rather unlikely so the name " Scythians " by which the Greek sources called them ( a geographical definition ) seems more appropriate.

* Parasitic cone ( or satellite cone ) is a geographical feature found around a volcano

Unlike with geographical maps, where many famous projections are known ( such as the Mercator projection ), the calendar projection is a matter of such triviality that no names for these exist in common circulation.

One version of cluster sampling is area sampling or geographical cluster sampling.

CAMRA is organised on a federal basis, with numerous independent local branches, each covering a particular geographical area of the UK, that contribute to the central body of the organisation based in St Albans.

According to the Afghan Ministry of Communications and Information Technology ( MCIT ), the geographical existence of Afghanistan is very valuable to connect all communications to this satellite.

* This Research is performed within a geographical space (.

This firmly separated all local authority areas ( whether unitary or two-tier ), from the geographical concept of a county as high level spatial unit.

The definition of the unit varied between geographical regions.

Malmö Municipality is an administrative unit defined by geographical borders, consisting of the City of Malmö and its immediate surroundings.

That community may be the family unit, but it can also be understood in a far wider sense of personal interaction, of geographical location, or of shared history.

Dalmatia signified not only a geographical unit, but was an entity based on common culture and settlement types, a common narrow eastern Adriatic coastal belt, Mediterranean climate, sclerophyllous vegetation of the Illyrian province, Adriatic carbonate platform, and karst geomorphology.

The regional geographical unit of historical Dalmatia, the coastal region between Istria and the Gulf of Kotor, includes the Orjen mountain with the highest peak in Montenegro, 1894 m. In present-day Dalmatia, the highest peak is Dinara ( 1913 m ), which is not a coastal mountain, while the highest coastal Dinaric mountains are on Biokovo ( Sv.

Technically, Shinjuku is therefore the prefectural capital of Tokyo ; but according to a statement by the governor's office, Tokyo ( the – as administrative unit: former – Tokyo City, the area of today's 23 special wards collectively ) can usually be considered the capital of Tokyo ( prefecture /" Metropolis ") for geographical purposes.

* Disposition: geographical locations of unit headquarters and subunits

The base unit of the federation is the Local, groups of members based within a specific geographical area.

A district of the church is a geographical administrative unit composed of a number of congregations called branches.

This could create an artificial geographical unit, as in Residency X in some parts of the British Indian Empire.

Area seventies generally have authority only within a geographical unit of the church called an area.

Instead, it is delimited by a land border on at least two sides and extends out from the larger geographical body of the administrative unit.

Also in geographical contexts, " Palestine " is often used, as it is a distinctly unique natural unit.

During the Middle Ages, the öre was a unit of Swedish currency equal to 1 / 8 of a mark, 3 örtugar or either 24, 36 or 48 penningar ( depending on the geographical area in which it was used ).

A satrapy was an administrative unit, usually organized on a geographical basis.

In most of the world, addresses are written in order from most specific to general, e. g. finest to coarsest information, i. e. starting with the addressee and ending with the largest geographical unit.

The area of the county does not form a geographical unit ; it shares several features with the neighbouring areas: from northeast the sand hills of the Nyírség spread over the county borders.

( Vogelsang used the unit of geographical miles in lieu of ordinary miles, effectively obscuring the true amount of land to be leased.

This covert unit was made up of selectively trained and language qualified members of Special Forces, as well as many Eastern European immigrants who brought much needed culture, geographical and language skills to the assignment.

The purpose of the Higher SS and Police Leader was to be a direct command authority for every SS and police unit in a given geographical region with such authority answering only to Heinrich Himmler and Adolf Hitler.

The regiment is currently the only line infantry or rifles unit to represent a single geographical county in the new infantry structure, serving as the county regiment of Yorkshire.