What is the Diameter of the Sun in km and miles?
Answer – The diameter of the sun is 1.3914 million km. This equals 864,337 miles.
Explanation:
In comparison to the sun, the earth has a diameter of 12,756 km, or 7917.6 mi. This means that the sun’s diameter is 109 times greater than the earth’s. To put things further into perspective, the sun can fit around 1.3 million earths inside it.
If the sun’s diameter is measured from one of its poles to the other, it is only about 10 km, or 6.2 mi, greater than its equatorial diameter of 1.3914 million km.
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