Eli5: What’s the difference between a mile and a nautical mile
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About 800 feet. A statute mile (that’s a mile in the usual sense) is 5280 feet. A nautical mile is 1 minute (1/60 of a degree) of latitude, which works out to 6076 feet. Nautical mile are handy for navigating at sea because it makes it easier to convert between distances and map coordinates
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