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by FabHK 2560 days ago
Still bears highlighting, I think:

From pole to equator it's 90 (deg) * 60 (minutes/deg) = 5400 nautical miles or 10000 kilometres.

Pretty much the only way I can remember the conversion factor. Well, that's not true, 1.852 also consists of the country code of the USA followed by the country code of Hong Kong, so that's easy.