Unit Converter
Conversion formula
The conversion factor from kilometers to centimeters is 100000, which means that 1 kilometer is equal to 100000 centimeters:
1 km = 100000 cm
To convert 100 kilometers into centimeters we have to multiply 100 by the conversion factor in order to get the length amount from kilometers to centimeters. We can also form a simple proportion to calculate the result:
1 km → 100000 cm
100 km → L(cm)
Solve the above proportion to obtain the length L in centimeters:
L(cm) = 100 km × 100000 cm
L(cm) = 10000000 cm
The final result is:
100 km → 10000000 cm
We conclude that 100 kilometers is equivalent to 10000000 centimeters:
100 kilometers = 10000000 centimeters
Alternative conversion
We can also convert by utilizing the inverse value of the conversion factor. In this case 1 centimeter is equal to 1.0E-7 × 100 kilometers.
Another way is saying that 100 kilometers is equal to 1 ÷ 1.0E-7 centimeters.
Approximate result
For practical purposes we can round our final result to an approximate numerical value. We can say that one hundred kilometers is approximately ten million centimeters:
100 km ≅ 10000000 cm
An alternative is also that one centimeter is approximately zero times one hundred kilometers.
Conversion table
kilometers to centimeters chart
For quick reference purposes, below is the conversion table you can use to convert from kilometers to centimeters
kilometers (km) | centimeters (cm) |
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101 kilometers | 10100000 centimeters |
102 kilometers | 10200000 centimeters |
103 kilometers | 10300000 centimeters |
104 kilometers | 10400000 centimeters |
105 kilometers | 10500000 centimeters |
106 kilometers | 10600000 centimeters |
107 kilometers | 10700000 centimeters |
108 kilometers | 10800000 centimeters |
109 kilometers | 10900000 centimeters |
110 kilometers | 11000000 centimeters |