square kilometer
Americannoun
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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
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 Engels, Friedrich
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