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 10000 meters into centimeters we have to multiply 10000 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

10000 m → L_(cm)

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

L_(cm) = 10000 m × 100 cm

L_(cm) = 1000000 cm

The final result is:

10000 m → 1000000 cm

We conclude that 10000 meters is equivalent to 1000000 centimeters:

10000 meters = 1000000 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-6 × 10000 meters.

Another way is saying that 10000 meters is equal to 1 ÷ 1.0E-6 centimeters.

Approximate result

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

10000 m ≅ 1000000 cm

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