A cubic mile is an imperial / U.S. customary (non-SI non-metric) unit of volume, used in the United States. It is defined as the volume of a cube with sides of 1 mile (5280 feet, 1760 yards, ≈1.609 kilometre) in length.

Symbols

There is no universally agreed symbol but the following are used:

• cubic mile

• cu mile

• cu mi

• mile/-3

• mi/-3

• mile^3

• mi^3

• mile³

• mi³

Unverified and uncited notations

• cu m, m/-3, m^3, m³ (this can be confused with cubic metre, however, mi is standard and m is rarely used ^{["m is rarely used": blatant nonsense for m with and without exponent 3]}

Conversions

1 cubic mile is equivalent to:

• 147,197,952,000 cubic feet

• 5,451,776,000 cubic yards

• 118,282,962,000 U.S. bushels

• 1,101,117,140,000 U.S. liquid gallons

• ≈26,217,074,761.905 crude barrels

• 3,379,200 acre feet

• 4,168,181,825,440.579584 litres (exactly)

• 4,168,181,825.440579584 cubic metres

• 4.168181825440579584 cubic kilometres

See also

• 1 E+9 m³ for a comparison with other volumes

• Square mile

• Orders of magnitude (volume)

• Conversion of units

• Cube (arithmetic), cube root

• * Cubic equation, cubic function

Category:Units of volumeCategory:Imperial unitsCategory:Customary units in the United States
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