Convert 500000 Liter to Gigaliter: 500000 Liter in Gigaliter
This calculator allows you to convert from Liter to Gigaliter and in a reverse direction. To convert from Liter to Gigaliter, enter the amount of Liter into the first input and to convert from Gigaliter to Liter, enter the amount of Gigaliter into the second input.
Every 1 Liter = 1.0E-9 Gigaliter
and so, 500000 Liter = 500000 multiplied by 1.0E-9 = 0.0005 Gigaliter.
Liter
What is liter?
In the past, liter was defined as the volume of one kilogram of pure water at 4 °C. Nowadays, liter is an important unit of volume used in the metric system which is equal to one cubic decimeter.
In other words, a cubic with 10 cm sides, has a volume of one liter. "L" is the symbol of liter. Liter has a french origin as it was derived from the french unit "Litron".
Liter is widely used, however, the cubic meter is the main SI unit of volume.