Conversion formula

The conversion factor from meters to centimeters is 100, which means that 1 meter is equal to 100 centimeters:

1 m = 100 cm

To convert 100 meters into centimeters we have to multiply 100 by the conversion factor in order to get the length amount from meters to centimeters. We can also form a simple proportion to calculate the result:

1 m → 100 cm

100 m → L_(cm)

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

L_(cm) = 100 m × 100 cm

L_(cm) = 10000 cm

The final result is:

100 m → 10000 cm

We conclude that 100 meters is equivalent to 10000 centimeters:

100 meters = 10000 centimeters

Alternative conversion

We can also convert by utilizing the inverse value of the conversion factor. In this case 1 centimeter is equal to 0.0001 × 100 meters.

Another way is saying that 100 meters is equal to 1 ÷ 0.0001 centimeters.

Approximate result

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

100 m ≅ 10000 cm

An alternative is also that one centimeter is approximately zero times one hundred meters.

Conversion table

meters to centimeters chart

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