Eli5: What’s the difference between a mile and a nautical mile

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Eli5: What’s the difference between a mile and a nautical mile

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Lot of good info here about where nautical miles came from with respect to latitude/longitude, but the simple answer is:

A statute (normal) mile is 5280 feet.

A nautical mile is 1852 meters.

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If you convert and subtract the two, a nautical mile is longer by about 800 feet.