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square kilometer

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noun

  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

One female had a home range that was less than a square kilometer, while another female’s range straddling L.A. and San Bernardino counties spanned 114 square kilometers.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2025

For the tortoise species to remain viable — an especially difficult feat, given their slow reproduction rates and long lifespans — an average of 3.9 adults must inhabit every square kilometer of those recovery areas.

From Salon • Apr. 25, 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

It has two hundred and forty-seven inhabitants for each square kilometer.

From An African Adventure by Marcosson, Isaac Frederick

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