League: roughly seven kilometres, or four and a half miles. Pace: roughly one metre or one yard. Handspan: roughly twenty centimetres or eight inches.

the statute mile used on land is 5,280 feet, whereas the nautical mile used exclusively at sea is 6,080 feet or 1.15 statute miles The kilometre is 3,280 feet or 0.63 of a statute mile and the kilometre is 0.54 nautical mile.

The Roman standards for distance.