How far is 20 thousand leagues?

A league is traditionally defined as approximately 3 miles, so 20,000 leagues would equal about 60,000 miles. This distance is roughly 2.4 times the circumference of the Earth. However, the term "leagues" is often used in a literary context, most notably in Jules Verne's "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea," where it refers more to distance traveled than a strict measurement.