:'Main article: Zero Kilometre Stone (Budapest)' Kilometre Zero of French national highways, located in Paris on the square facing the main entrance of Notre Dame cathedral, and considered the official centre of the city of Paris. It was replaced in El Capitolio by a replica in 1973. The original diamond, said to have belonged to Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and have been sold to the Cuban state by a Turkish merchant, was stolen on 25 March 1946 and mysteriously returned to the President, Ramón Grau San Martín, on 2 June 1946. Embedded in the floor in the centre of the main hall is a replica 25 carat (5 g) diamond, which marks Kilometre Zero for Cuba. There is no ceremonial plaque.Ĭuba's Kilometre Zero is located in its capital Havana in El Capitolio. This point was historically the start of the line the marker is a simple concrete marker, with '0' painted on it. The most famous such marker of which any part survives from ancient times is the Milliarium Aureum ('Golden Milestone') of the Roman Empire, believed to be the literal origin for the maxim that 'all roads lead to Rome.'Ĭhile's Autopista Central (the Chilean portion of the Panamerican Highway) has its Kilometre Zero at the intersection with the Alameda del Libertador Bernardo O'Higgins.Ĭhina Railways' 0km is located at the entrance to the Fengtai Yard on the Jingguang Line just outside of Beijing. A similar notion also exists for individual roads (that is, all locations on the road have a number, depending on their distance from that location), and for individual cities (often the city's central post office is used for this).

In many countries, Kilometre Zero (also written 'km 0') or similar terms in other languages, is a particular location (often in the nation's capital city), from which distances are traditionally measured.

Kilometre zero