Unit Converter
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 2 decimeters into kilometers we have to multiply 2 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
2 dm → L(km)
Solve the above proportion to obtain the length L in kilometers:
L(km) = 2 dm × 0.0001 km
L(km) = 0.0002 km
The final result is:
2 dm → 0.0002 km
We conclude that 2 decimeters is equivalent to 0.0002 kilometers:
2 decimeters = 0.0002 kilometers
Alternative conversion
We can also convert by utilizing the inverse value of the conversion factor. In this case 1 kilometer is equal to 5000 × 2 decimeters.
Another way is saying that 2 decimeters is equal to 1 ÷ 5000 kilometers.
Approximate result
For practical purposes we can round our final result to an approximate numerical value. We can say that two decimeters is approximately zero kilometers:
2 dm ≅ 0 km
An alternative is also that one kilometer is approximately five thousand times two 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
decimeters (dm) | kilometers (km) |
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3 decimeters | 0 kilometers |
4 decimeters | 0 kilometers |
5 decimeters | 0.001 kilometers |
6 decimeters | 0.001 kilometers |
7 decimeters | 0.001 kilometers |
8 decimeters | 0.001 kilometers |
9 decimeters | 0.001 kilometers |
10 decimeters | 0.001 kilometers |
11 decimeters | 0.001 kilometers |
12 decimeters | 0.001 kilometers |