According to Pliny the Elder, the work advanced four stadia (about 5 8 kilometers).

Covering an area of 5 square kilometers (2 sq.

We walked for about 6 kilometers.

The national territory extends about 900 kilometers from east to west and 410 kilometers from north to south.

Antarctica, though a huge continental archipelago, measuring 24 million square kilometers, and covered in ice that is 4 5 kilometers thick, is far from any inhabited continent.

North America covers an area of about 24,709,000 square kilometers (9,540,000 square miles), about 4.8 of the planet's surface or about 16.5 of its land area.

Nature s water replenishment capacity is fixed, limiting the world s usable freshwater resources to about 200,000 cubic kilometers.

Size Most cometary nuclei are thought to be no more than about 10 miles (16 kilometers) across.

On 30 September 2009, a 7.9 magnitude earthquake hit about 50 kilometers off the coast of Padang.

Its neighbors include Lithuania on the south (453 kilometers of common border), Estonia on the north (267 kilometers), Russia on the east (217 kilometers), and Belarus on the southeast (141 kilometers).

The Bosphorus, which links the Sea of Marmara and the Black Sea, is about twenty five kilometers long and averages 1.5 kilometers in width but narrows in places to less than 1000 meters.

Gaza is one of the most densely populated places on earth, and one of the poorest 1.5 million of us live on a patch of land about 41 kilometers long and 6 12 kilometers wide.

The Vostok 6 landed safely in the Baevski region of the Altai territory, about 620 kilometers northeast of Karaganda.

Rehovot () is a city in the Center District of Israel, about 20 kilometers (12 mi) south of Tel Aviv.

The total area of snowfields and glaciers was estimated to be about 104 square kilometers in the early 1970s.

It is located within the Rouville Regional County Municipality in the Montérégie region about 30 kilometers east of Montreal.

On August 29, 1997, about 200 people were killed just a few kilometers to the southeast in the Rais massacre.

Kiviuq is about 16 kilometres in diameter, and orbits Saturn at an average distance of 11.1 million kilometers in 450 days.

On the eve of his death in 1557, the Portuguese empire spanned almost 1 billion acres (about 4 million square kilometers).

We ran for 10 kilometers.

It's fifty kilometers to Paris.

This compares with 39 kilometers per 1,000 square kilometers in Ethiopia today and 71 per 1,000 in Senegal.

It is located 13 kilometers inland from the Pacific coast and 770 kilometers from the nation's capital, Lima.

It is located in Queen Maud Land, about 130 kilometers from the coast, on a nunatak called Basen in the Vestfjella Mountains.

Dispelling some mythology' about the P 5

The crater diameters range from a few kilometers at the low end to 326 kilometers for the largest known crater, Gertrude.

Bulgaria In Vidin an industrial district was flooded and over 300 people were evacuated to a tent city about 20 kilometers from the town.

It lies 7 kilometers from Lake Constance.

Chaungmagyi Dam is located a few kilometers to the north of Naypyidaw, while Ngalaik Dam is a few kilometers to the south.

Since my residence is more than 30 kilometers from my workplace, I'm going to have to start thinking soon about how to solve this problem.

July 26 marks one years since the murder of 19 mentally disabled people in a care home in Sagamihara, about fifty kilometers west of Tokyo.

Moreover, according to the Convention on the Law of the Sea, countries enjoy absolute sovereignty in the first 12 nautical miles (about 20 kilometers) of their coastal waters sea, and almost absolute sovereignty, limited by a few conventions, within 200 nautical miles (360 kilometers) of their coasts.

It covers an area of 9,757.53 square kilometers.

In 2006, the airport handled about 5 million passengers.

Her house is a few kilometers away from here.

A polar bear can swim up to 500 kilometers.

Technological breakthroughs have made it feasible to transport electricity via high voltage direct current (HVDC) over long distances without incurring great losses (only about 3 per 1,000 kilometers).

In one area of Kenya, farmers who had to travel 17 kilometers to reach an agrodealer in 2004 had to travel only four kilometers three years later.

The largest state by area is Alaska, encompassing 665,384 square miles (1,723,337 square kilometers), while the smallest is Rhode Island, encompassing 1,545 square miles (4,002 square kilometers).

The corresponding metric unit using kilometers is the river kilometer.

Proponents proudly proclaim that if an electric car is driven about 300,000 kilometers (180,000 miles), it will have emitted less than half the CO2 of a gasoline powered car.

Seminar in Celigny, Switzerland, about transnational entities, (May 5 6, 2001).

Before Deng launched his four modernizations, China had acquired global military reach by testing its first intercontinental ballistic missile, the DF 5, with a range of 12,000 kilometers (7,500 miles), and developing a thermonuclear warhead.

Meanwhile, eight new railway lines, covering 200 kilometers and with a daily capacity of close to four million people, have become operational this year, alongside 60 kilometers of bus lines.

The hardness is about 5 5.5, and the specific gravity is 2.84.