Orders of Magnitude (numbers) - 106

106

(1000000; 10002; long and short scales: one million)

ISO: mega- (M)

• Demography: The population of Riga, Latvia was 1,003,949 in 2004, according to Eurostat.
• BioMed — Species: The World Resources Institute claims that approximately 1.4 million species have been named, out of an unknown number of total species (estimates range between 2 and 100 million species) Some scientists give 8.8 million species as an exact figure.
• Genocide: Approximately 800,000-1,500,000 (1.5 Million) Armenians were killed in the Armenian Genocide.
• Info: The freedb database of CD track listings has around 1,750,000 entries as of June 2005
• Mathematics — Playing cards: There are 2,598,960 different 5-card poker hands that can be dealt from a standard 52-card deck.
• Info — Web sites: As of July 17, 2012, Wikipedia contains approximately 4,004,000 articles in the English language
• Geography/Computing — Geographic places: The NIMA GEOnet Names Server contains approximately 3.88 million named geographic features outside the United States, with 5.34 million names. The USGS Geographic Names Information System claims to have almost 2 million physical and cultural geographic features within the United States.
• Genocide: Approximately 5,100,000–6,200,000 Jews were killed in the Holocaust.