What is DbGeography return Distance unit?

Question

When I am using the Distance method, it asks for 2 locations, and returns a double.

A double value that specifies the distance between the two closest points in geographyValue and otherGeography (MSDN).

But is it meters? kilometers? miles?

possible duplicate of [System.Data.Spatial DbGeography.Distance units?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13934169/system-data-spatial-dbgeography-distance-units) — AlexC, Apr 11 '14 at 18:55

score 4 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:32

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this answer indicates meters:

the answerer has an srid of 4326. You can check what yours is in the DefaultCoordinateSystemId of your DbGeography object.

edited May 23 '17 at 10:32

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answered Aug 24 '13 at 10:20

Paul Spencer

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