2000 meters in decimeters

Conversion formula

The conversion factor from meters to decimeters is 10, which means that 1 meter is equal to 10 decimeters:

1 m = 10 dm

To convert 2000 meters into decimeters we have to multiply 2000 by the conversion factor in order to get the length amount from meters to decimeters. We can also form a simple proportion to calculate the result:

1 m → 10 dm

2000 m → L_(dm)

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

L_(dm) = 2000 m × 10 dm

L_(dm) = 20000 dm

The final result is:

2000 m → 20000 dm

We conclude that 2000 meters is equivalent to 20000 decimeters:

2000 meters = 20000 decimeters

Alternative conversion

We can also convert by utilizing the inverse value of the conversion factor. In this case 1 decimeter is equal to 5.0E-5 × 2000 meters.

Another way is saying that 2000 meters is equal to 1 ÷ 5.0E-5 decimeters.

Approximate result

For practical purposes we can round our final result to an approximate numerical value. We can say that two thousand meters is approximately twenty thousand decimeters:

2000 m ≅ 20000 dm

An alternative is also that one decimeter is approximately zero times two thousand meters.

Conversion table

meters to decimeters chart

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