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 100 decimeters into kilometers we have to multiply 100 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

100 dm → L_(km)

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

L_(km) = 100 dm × 0.0001 km

L_(km) = 0.01 km

The final result is:

100 dm → 0.01 km

We conclude that 100 decimeters is equivalent to 0.01 kilometers:

100 decimeters = 0.01 kilometers

Alternative conversion

We can also convert by utilizing the inverse value of the conversion factor. In this case 1 kilometer is equal to 100 × 100 decimeters.

Another way is saying that 100 decimeters is equal to 1 ÷ 100 kilometers.

Approximate result

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

100 dm ≅ 0.01 km

An alternative is also that one kilometer is approximately one hundred times one hundred 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