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Square mile

The square mile (sq mi) is an imperial and US unit of measure for an area

Area

Area is a quantity expressing the two-dimensional size of a defined part of a surface, typically a region bounded by a closed curve. The term surface area refers to the total area of the exposed surface of a 3-dimensional solid, such as the sum of the areas of the exposed sides of a polyhedron....
equal to the area of a square

Square (geometry)

In Euclidean geometry, a square is a regular polygon with four equal sides and four equal angles . A square with vertices ABCD would be denoted ....
of one statute mile

Mile

A mile is a Units of measurement of length, usually used to measure distance, in a number of different systems. In contemporary English contexts, mile most commonly refers to the statute mile of 5,280 Feet or the nautical mile of 1,852 meters ....
. It should not be confused with miles square, which refers to the number of miles on each side squared. For instance, 20 miles square (20×20 miles) is equal to 400 square miles.

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The square mile (sq mi) is an imperial and US unit of measure for an area

Area

Square (geometry)

In Euclidean geometry, a square is a regular polygon with four equal sides and four equal angles . A square with vertices ABCD would be denoted ....
of one statute mile

Mile

1 square mile	= 640 acres
= 27,878,400 square feet Square foot The square foot is an imperial unit / U.S. customary unit of area, used mainly in the United States and United Kingdom. It is defined as the area of a Square with sides of 1 foot in length....
= 2.589988110336 square kilometers (exactly)
˜ 260 hectare Hectare A hectare is a unit of area equal to , or one square hectometre , and commonly used for surveying.The hectare is used in most countries around the world, especially in domains concerned with land ownership, land planning, and land management, including law , agriculture, forestry, and town planning.... s

Conversions

1 square mile is equivalent to:

4,014,489,600 square inch
Square inch

A square inch is a Units of measurement of area, equal to the area of a Square with sides of one inch. The following symbols are used to denote square inches:...
es
27,878,400 square feet
3,097,600 square yard
Square yard

The square yard is an Imperial unit/U.S. customary unit unit of area, formerly used in most of the English language-speaking world but now generally replaced by the square metre outside of the US....
s
640 acre
Acre

The acre is a Units of measurement of area in a number of different systems, including the Imperial unit#Measures of area and United States customary units#Units of area systems....
s
2560 rood
Rood

Rood has several distinct meanings, all derived from the same basic etymology."Rood" is an archaic word for "pole", from Anglo-Saxon language rod "pole", specifically "crucifix", from Proto-Germanic *rodo, cognate to Old Saxon roda, Old High German ruoda "rod"; the relation of rood to rod , from Anglo-Saxon rodd "pol...
s
25,899,881,103.36 square centimeters
2,589,988.110336 square meters
2.589988110336 square kilometers

In the Public Land Survey System

Public Land Survey System

File:US-DOI-BLM-logo.pngThe Public Land Survey System is a method used in the United States to survey and identify land parcels, particularly for titles and deeds of rural, wild or undeveloped land....
of the U.S.

United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
and the Dominion Land Survey

Dominion Land Survey

The Dominion Land Survey is the method used to divide most of Western Canada into one-square-mile sections for agricultural and other purposes....
of Canada

Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
, the size of a standard section of land is one square mile, but always with the marginally larger survey definition.