sq. mi.

American  

abbreviation

1. square mile; square miles.

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Example Sentences

Until recently, Guam, 210 sq. mi. of U.S. territory at the bottom of Micronesia’s Mariana Islands chain, would not have been familiar to many Americans.

From Time • Aug. 16, 2017

The eventual goal is to capture runoff from one-third of the city's impervious surfaces and make 15 sq. mi. of man-made, urban jungle function more like a natural forest.

From Time • Sep. 30, 2011

At 139 sq. mi., with a population of roughly 800,000 — about 40% of its postwar peak — the city is simply too damn big.

From Time • Nov. 19, 2010

Prodded in part by pressure from Davi and his supporters, Brazil in 1991 set aside 36,000 sq. mi. as a Yanomami homeland.

From Time Magazine Archive

Pantutaran is perhaps Pantocunan, of the Joló group, with an area of .6 sq. mi.;

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XLIII, 1670-1700 by Various