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square kilometer

American  

noun

  • square kilometers
    plural
  1. a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one kilometer on each side. km 2 , sq. km


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Once the glacier is either less than 0.01 square kilometer or less than 1 percent of its initial volume, you cannot call it a glacier anymore.

From Slate Dec. 19, 2025

The minimum density for the tortoises to remain viable is 3.9 adults per square kilometer, according to the report.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 20, 2024

Lining up visual and acoustic datasets for the first time, researchers built a statistical model to estimate the number of whales per square kilometer at different points in time.

From Science Daily Apr. 12, 2024

While scientists could once find 6,000 axolotls on average per square kilometer in Mexico, there are now only 36, according to the National Autonomous university’s latest census.

From Seattle Times Nov. 24, 2023

This is a rather high figure for a barbarian group of nations, although 10 inhabitants to the square kilometer or 550 to the geographical square mile is very little when compared to present conditions.

From The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Friedrich Engels

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