Taxis are another cheap way to get around, with a 90p flagfall then 60p per kilometre.
Mogadishu-born Mo Farah became one of Team GB's pre-eminent heroes with his storming 10, 000 kilometre finish.
Before long, I'm stuck in a traffic jam stretching for more than a kilometre.
Projects like the square kilometre array discussed in this BBC news item are just a start.
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We cleared the population from a half kilometre range as a precaution... and put up barricades.
On the third day, the stationmaster once again made the sixteen-kilometre journey to him.
It is doubtful that any of that cubic kilometre will ever run at all.
Its two satellites, flying half a kilometre apart, will communicate with one another using laser telemetry.
By next year it should be able to make cables a third of a kilometre long.
State television shows visibility of less than a kilometre in northern Shijiazhuang and other areas.
The directions to Somonte are "drive to a certain kilometre marker and look for the flags".
During 1, 336 days over 50, 000 Bosnians, locked in a square kilometre, resisted Serbian bombings and agression.
This array, too, will have an area of a tenth of a square kilometre.
The population density in the Russian Far East is barely one person per square kilometre.
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The agreement provides for the construction of a three-thousand-kilometre pipeline from Kazakstan to the west of China.
For the wave shapes to match, the quakes must have taken place less than a kilometre apart.
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That amounted to almost 5000 pieces of litter per kilometre of shoreline cleaned around Northern Ireland's coast.
The cull is to affect sheep on farms in the three-kilometre radius of the outbreak at Meigh.
There is no electricity or water supply and the nearest school is a five-kilometre (three miles) walk.
The line makes a kilometre of paper every minute, runs non-stop and requires only 14 workers per shift.
The cap is cut by canyons and troughs that plunge as deep as one kilometre beneath the surface.
Less than a kilometre away there was a Jewish settlement - I don't know what its name was.
In other words, they contained just a few millionths of a gram of dust in each cubic kilometre.
For his rockets (their longest range so far is about a kilometre) he uses propellants, also from fertiliser.
But, the more we can find out, the more kilometre squares we can fill in with information, the better.
The cap has an average thickness of one kilometre and covers an area 1.5 times the size of Texas.
Cape Town also boasts more than a dozen different sorts of scenery within a 250 kilometre (155 mile) radius.
In 1994, 530 items of plastic were found per kilometre of beach compared to more than 1, 000 in 2004.
The blast struck outside a compound housing government buildings in Kilometre Four (K4) - a crossroads in central Mogadishu.
The launchers can be up to a kilometre away from the radar and control hub, linked by microwave signals.
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