How many meters are there in 5,300 kilometers?

To convert kilometers to meters, it’s important to know the conversion factor: 1 kilometer is equal to 1,000 meters.

To find out how many meters are in 5,300 kilometers, you multiply the number of kilometers by the conversion factor. Thus, you perform the calculation:

5,300 kilometers × 1,000 meters/kilometer = 5,300,000 meters.

This calculation shows that when you scale up kilometers to meters by multiplying, you arrive at 5,300,000 meters as the total for 5,300 kilometers. This correctly reflects the metric system's relationship between these two units of length.