Square mile

A square mile is an Imperial unit of area equal the area of a square of one statute mile (≈1,609 m) in length on each side. It is not a metric unit. The other major Imperial unit of area is the acre, of which there are 640 in a square mile.

Symbols

There is no universally agreed symbol but the following are used:

• square mile
• sq mile
• sq mi
• sq m (this can be confused with square metre)
• mile/-2
• mi/-2
• m/-2 (this can be confused with square metre)
• mile^2
• mi^2
• m^2 (this can be confused with square metre)
• mile²
• mi²
• m² (this can be confused with square metre)

Conversions

1 square mile is equivalent to:

• 4,014,489,600 square inches
• 27,878,400 square feet
• 3,097,600 square yards
• 640 acres
• 25,899,881,103.36 square centimetres
• 2,589,988.110336 square metres
• 2.589988110336 square kilometres

In the Public Land Survey System of the U.S. and the Dominion Land Survey of Canada, the size of a standard section of land is one square mile, but always with the marginally larger survey definition.

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