A Scandinavian mile (Norwegian and Swedish: mil, [miːl], Finnish: peninkulma) is a unit of length common in Norway and Sweden, to a lesser extent in Finland. Today, it is standardised as 1 mil being 10 kilometres (6.2 miles) in Sweden and Norway, but it had different values in the past.
A Scandinavian mile (Norwegian and Swedish: mil, [miːl], Finnish: peninkulma) is a unit of length common in Norway and Sweden, to a lesser extent in Finland. Today, it is standardised as 1 mil being 10 kilometres (6.2 miles) in Sweden and Norway, but it had different values in the past.
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