Human-defined Scales and Structures
- 2.100 Mm — Length of proposed gas pipeline from Iran to India via Pakistan
- 2.288 Mm — Length of the official Alaska Highway when it was built in the 1940s
- 3.069 Mm — Length of Interstate 95 (from Houlton, Maine to Miami, Florida)
- 3.846 Mm — Length of U.S. Route 1 (from Fort Kent, Maine to Key West, Florida)
- 5.007 Mm — Estimated length of Interstate 90 (Seattle, Washington to Boston, Massachusetts)
- 5.614 Mm — Length of the Australian Dingo Fence
- 7.821 Mm — Length of the Trans-Canada Highway, the world's longest national highway (from Victoria, British Columbia to St. John's, Newfoundland)
- 8.852 Mm — Aggregate length of the Great Wall of China, including trenches, hills and rivers
- 9.259 Mm — Length of the Trans-Siberian railway
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