Conversion formula

The conversion factor from decimeters to kilometers is 0.0001, which means that 1 decimeter is equal to 0.0001 kilometers:

1 dm = 0.0001 km

To convert 10 decimeters into kilometers we have to multiply 10 by the conversion factor in order to get the length amount from decimeters to kilometers. We can also form a simple proportion to calculate the result:

1 dm → 0.0001 km

10 dm → L_(km)

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

L_(km) = 10 dm × 0.0001 km

L_(km) = 0.001 km

The final result is:

10 dm → 0.001 km

We conclude that 10 decimeters is equivalent to 0.001 kilometers:

10 decimeters = 0.001 kilometers

Alternative conversion

We can also convert by utilizing the inverse value of the conversion factor. In this case 1 kilometer is equal to 1000 × 10 decimeters.

Another way is saying that 10 decimeters is equal to 1 ÷ 1000 kilometers.

Approximate result

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

10 dm ≅ 0.001 km

An alternative is also that one kilometer is approximately one thousand times ten decimeters.

Conversion table

decimeters to kilometers chart

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