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km.

1 American  

abbreviation

  1. kilometer; kilometers.

  2. kingdom.


km 2 American  

abbreviation

  1. kilometer; kilometers.


km 1 British  

abbreviation

  1. Comoros

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

km 2 British  

symbol

  1. kilometre

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

km Scientific  
  1. Abbreviation of kilometer


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The study, published in the journal Geology, suggests that the NAA originally formed about 1,800 km away, near the Labrador Sea where the crust began to split between Canada and Greenland.

From Science Daily

Under normal conditions, this region stretches far from Earth, but the May storm forced its outer edge inward from about 44,000 km above the surface to only 9,600 km.

From Science Daily

It is located about 120 km west of Montreal.

From BBC

Think of them as a hoop with a radius of 50,000 km and a rim that is only 10 km wide.

From Scientific American

On Sunday, Russian shelling targeted two high-rise buildings in Avdiivka, which is just 10 km from the northern outskirts of the city of Donetsk, which has been under Moscow's control since 2014.

From Reuters