sq. km
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Ukraine, she said, had recaptured 200 sq. km.
From Reuters • Jul. 31, 2023
The 1927 flood was larger than anything that had come before it in the historical record, and the levees broke in at least 145 places, flooding 70,000 sq. km.
From Scientific American • May 20, 2011
The rest of the peninsula has less than one person per 4 sq. km.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Although its population is one of the fastest growing on the subcontinent, Assam has only 254 people per sq. km.
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Effect of the Floods in the Santa Catarina River.—The area of the water-shed of the Santa Catarina River above Monterrey is about 1,410 sq. km.
From ASCE 1193: The Water-Works and Sewerage of Monterrey, N. L., Mexico The 4th article from the June, 1911, Volume LXXII, Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Paper No. 1193, Feb. 1, 1911. by Conway, George Robert Graham
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