What is the difference between Nautical Miles and Regular miles?

Question

Besides one being water, and one land

Answer 1

The nautical mile was developed to aid in navigation. In theory, if the earth were a perfect sphere, and you drew a straight line along it's surface from pole to pole, it would measure 180 degrees. Each degree can be divided into 60 minutes of arc.
A nautical mile, in theory equals 1 minute of arc.

In reality of course, the earth is not a perfect sphere, so in 1929 the nautical mile was standardized to measure 1852 meters.

The history of the statute mile is somewhat less scientific. It is based on a statute passed in Elizabethan England defining the unit of measure based on the measure of a furlong. It made perfect sense at the time.

Since so much of the english speaking world has been surveyed and parceled out in statute miles, they will be with us for a long time, even as most civilized ;-)) english speaking countries convert to the more logically ordered metric system.

Answer 2

What Is A Nautical Mile

Answer 3

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What is the difference between Nautical Miles and Regular miles?
Besides one being water, and one land

Answer 4

A Nautical Mile is 6,080 feet.

A statute mile (regular mile) is 5,280 feet.

The nautical mile was extended in order to have an equal number of parts measured around the globe to accomodate celestial navigation.

Answer 5

1 nautical mile = 1.15077945 miles

Answer 6

A nautical mile is based on the average length of one minute of arc along a meridian, originally 6080.2 feet , now 1852 meters.

A statute mile is based on an arbitrary definition from the 13th century.

Answer 7

1 nautical mile is 1.150779 miles.

Answer 8

a nautical mile is 1.1 miles