Human-defined Scales and Structures
- 1 km — Wavelength of the highest long wave radio frequency, 300 kHz
- 1.280 km — Span of the Golden Gate Bridge (distance between towers)
- 1.609 km — 1 mile
- 1.852 km — 1 nautical mile, equal to 1 arc minute of latitude at the surface of the earth
- 1.991 km — Span of the Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge
- 2.309 km — Axial length of the Three Gorges Dam, the largest dam in the world
- 3.991 km — Length of the Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge, longest suspension bridge in the world as of December 2008
- 5.072 km — Height of Tanggula Mountain Pass, below highest peak in the Tanggula Mountains, highest railway pass in the world as of August 2005
- 5.727 km — Height of Cerro Aucanquilcha, highest road in the world, located in Chile
- 98 airports have paved runways from 4 km to 5.5 km in length.
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“For these have governed in our lives,
And see how men have warred.
The Cross, the Crown, the Scales may all
As well have been the Sword.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“The American who has been confined, in his own country, to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on entering York Minster or St. Peter’s at Rome, by the feeling that these structures are imitations also,—faint copies of an invisible archetype.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)