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How many kilometers of blood vessels does an adult have in total?
100,000
Background
All the blood vessels of an adult add up to roughly 100,000 kilometers. That is enough to wrap around Earth two and a half times. Most of them are tiny thin capillaries. Through them blood reaches every cell in the body.
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