Sentence examples for about five km from inspiring English sources

Faduma Bihi is now in the first year of Ilais Secondary School about five km northwest of her home in the Somaliland capital Hargeisa.

At the moment, the separation between the pair is about one million km, and closing.

08 45: Hundreds of protesters reach an area about one km from the presidential palace, the closest to the centre they have got, reports the BBC's Maud Jullien.

The village I went to was about six km (3.7 miles) away from the town center of Hubchowki.

Three vessels involved in the search have detected pings about four km (two miles) from where the plane's tail was raised on Saturday, in water about 30 meters (100 feet) deep.

She walked in the searing heat to Engela Hospital, about two km from her homestead in Ohangwena Region, northern Namibia.

It covers about 12 million km or about 28% of the Asian continent and is about 15% bigger than Europe.

The distance at close approach varies between about 54 and about 103 million km due to the planets' elliptical orbits, which causes comparable variation in angular size.

At about 2.77 astronomical units (AU; about 414 million km [257 million miles]) from the Sun, it is by far the nearest of the dwarf planets.

In the Orion Nebula this is about 6 billion km (4 billion miles), or about the radius of the orbit of Pluto around the Sun.

Queensland is the second largest states in Australia and it lies on the northeast of the continent, covering an area about 1.73 million km, with a total population about 4.18 million in June 2007.