Back Vierkante myl Afrikaans ميل مربع Arabic ميل مربع ARZ Milla cuadrada AST বর্গমাইল Bengali/Bangla Milla quadrada Catalan Quadratmeile German އަކަމޭލު DV Τετραγωνικό μίλι Greek Kvadrata mejlo Esperanto
| square mile | |
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 Aerial photograph of Indiana farmland, with each small square being one square mile. (see Section (United States land surveying)) | |
| General information | |
| Unit system | Imperial, United States customary units |
| Unit of | area |
| Symbol | mi2, sq mi |
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| 1 mi2 in ... | ... is equal to ... |
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The square mile (abbreviated as sq mi and sometimes as mi2)[1] is an imperial and US unit of measure for area. One square mile is equal to the area of a square with each side measuring a length of one mile.[2]
- ^ Rowlett, Russ (September 1, 2004). "S", How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved February 22, 2012.
- ^ Davies, Charles (1872). Mathematical dictionary and cyclopedia of mathematical science. Original from Harvard University: A.S. Barnes and co. p. 582.