Square mile
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- This article is about the unit of measure. The Square Mile is a traditional name for the City of London in the United Kingdom.
A square mile is an Imperial unit / U.S. customary unit of area equal to that of a square with sides each 1 statute mile (5,280 feet, 1,760 yards, 1,609.344 metres) in length. It is not an SI or metric unit and is used primarily in the United States. The SI unit of area is the square metre.
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Symbols
There is no universally agreed symbol but the following are used:
- square mile
- sq mile
- sq mi
- sq m (this can be confused with square metre)
- mile/-2
- mi/-2
- m/-2 (this can be confused with square metre)
- mile^2
- mi^2
- m^2 (this can be confused with square metre)
- mile²
- mi²
- m² (this can be confused with square metre)
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Conversions
1 square mile is equivalent to:
- 4,014,489,600 square inches
- 27,878,400 square feet
- 3,097,600 square yards
- 640 acres
- 25,899,881,103.36 square centimetres
- 2,589,988.110336 square metres
- 2.589988110336 square kilometres
In the Public Land Survey System of the U.S. and the Dominion Land Survey of Canada, the size of a standard section of land is one square mile.
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See also
- 1 E-1 m² for a comparison with other areas
- Cubic mile
- Orders of magnitude (area)
- Conversion of units
- Area (geometry)
- Square (algebra), square rootde:Quadratmeile
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