One megabyte is equal to 1, 000 KBs and antecedes the gigabyte(GB) unit of memory measurement. A megabyte is 106 or 1, 000, 000 bytes and is abbreviated as “MB”. 1 MB is technically 1, 000, 000 bytes, therefore, megabytes are often used synonymously with mebibytes, which contain exactly 1, 048, 576 bytes.