square kilometer
Americannoun
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square kilometers
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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
By the square kilometer, Southwest was sitting on the find of the decade.
From Joe Burke's Last Stand by John Moncure Wetterau
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