Is a British mile longer than a US mile? and if so by how much?

Answer 1

a mile is a mile is a mile

1 mile 1600 yards 1760 meters

Answer 2

A mile is a mile no matter where you are, but the Brits don't use miles. They use kilometers.

Ounces are different because when the first colonists came over from Europe, they didn't take evaporation into account, so an American ounce (by volume) is different than a British one. Odd trivia that you may want to know.

Answer 3

We use a mixture of imperial and metric measurements. We tend to measure distances between places in miles and we talk about pints of beer or milk. Most people probably measure their weight in stones and pounds rather than kgs. But for short distances, lengths or heights most people under 40 use metres, cms and so on. People tend to know their height both in cms and in feet and inches. The schools have exclusively taught the metric system for at least 40 years but the older generation has been very unwilling to just move on and adopt it completely, so the younger generations have been in the strange position of having to use measurement systems they've never actually been taught.

Answer 4

Well, in track the US will usually run a 1600 meter which is often called the mile (although it is slightly off, more like 1609 meters) however, in the rest of the world, they only run 1500 meter races

Answer 5

The British use kilometers. Their speedometers on their cars have kilometers in big letters on the outside and (statute) miles on the inside in smaller letters. In the U.S., there are two types of "miles" referred to:
statute miles (like the ones in your car)
nautical miles (for pilots and boats. Called knots).
Nautical miles are slightly longer. They are approximately 1.15 statue miles. So if you are going 100 nautical miles/hour, you are going 115 statute miles/hour.

Answer 6

A mile is a mile wherever you are in the World.
1mile=1609.27m
1mile=5279.69ft
1mile=1759.89yards

Answer 7

No, they're both one and the same, 5,280 feet.

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P.S. -- how come all these (I'm assuming) American commenters are saying the UK uses kilometers? They've obviously never been to the UK before! The UK uses MILES!

Answer 8

yes much longer. the americans had to change the distance for the same reason the changed the word colour. So they could callit american. lol

Really though its the same. as is a mm, cm, m, km and any other distance

Answer 9

5,280 ft = 1 mile

Answer 10

You mean a kilometer? It is 1000 meters a mile is 5,280 feet.

So our mile is 1,609 meters, which is longer. So our mile is longer by 1998 feet.