Conversion formula

The conversion factor from kilometers to decimeters is 10000, which means that 1 kilometer is equal to 10000 decimeters:

1 km = 10000 dm

To convert 1 kilometer into decimeters we have to multiply 1 by the conversion factor in order to get the length amount from kilometers to decimeters. We can also form a simple proportion to calculate the result:

1 km → 10000 dm

1 km → L_(dm)

Solve the above proportion to obtain the length L in decimeters:

L_(dm) = 1 km × 10000 dm

L_(dm) = 10000 dm

The final result is:

1 km → 10000 dm

We conclude that 1 kilometer is equivalent to 10000 decimeters:

1 kilometer = 10000 decimeters

Alternative conversion

We can also convert by utilizing the inverse value of the conversion factor. In this case 1 decimeter is equal to 0.0001 × 1 kilometer.

Another way is saying that 1 kilometer is equal to 1 ÷ 0.0001 decimeters.

Approximate result

For practical purposes we can round our final result to an approximate numerical value. We can say that one kilometer is approximately ten thousand decimeters:

1 km ≅ 10000 dm

An alternative is also that one decimeter is approximately zero times one kilometer.

Conversion table

kilometers to decimeters chart

For quick reference purposes, below is the conversion table you can use to convert from kilometers to decimeters