square kilometer
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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
Several thousand sensors distributed over a square kilometer near the South Pole are tasked with answering one of the large outstanding questions in physics: does quantum gravity exist?
From Science Daily • Mar. 26, 2024
A square kilometer swarm comprises 80 million locusts that can in one day consume food crops enough to feed 35,000 people.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 14, 2024
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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