eli5, Why isn’t there a nautical kilometer?

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eli5, Why isn’t there a nautical kilometer?

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A kilometer is a thousand meters, it’s what the word means. If you change the number of meters or the measurement of a meter than it can no longer be a kilometer as it won’t be a thousand meters or it won’t be meters at all. 

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