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Square miles should not be confused with miles square, a square region with each side having a length of the value given. For example, a region which is 20 miles square (20 miles × 20 miles) has an area of 400 sq mi; a rectangle of measuring 10 miles × 40 miles also has an area of 400 sq mi, but is not 20 miles square.
While debating what became the Land Ordinance of 1785, Thomas Jefferson's committee wanted to divide the public lands in the west into "hundreds of ten geographical miles square, each mile containing 6,086 and 4-10ths of a foot" and "sub-divided into lots of one mile square each, or 850 and 4-10ths of an acre". [9]
San Francisco is an extreme example: water makes up nearly 80% of its total area of 232 square miles (601 km 2). In many cases an incorporated place is geographically large because its municipal government has merged with the government of the surrounding county.
Leonardo da Vinci drew the Vitruvian Man within a square of side 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) and a circle about 1.2 m (3 ft 11 in) in radius. To help compare different orders of magnitude , this section lists lengths between one meter and ten meters.
The scalebar is expressed in "Hours walking or common Flemish miles", and includes three actual scales: small, medium and big Flemish miles. The Dutch mile (mijl) has had different definitions throughout history. One of the older definitions was 5,600 ells. But the length of an ell was not standardised, so that the length of a mile could range ...
1 square zeptometre (zm 2) 1 zm 2 10 −36: 1 square attometre (am 2) 1 am 2 10 −30: 1 square femtometre (fm 2) 1 fm 2 10 −29 66.52 fm 2: Thomson cross-section of the electron [4] 10 −28 100 fm 2: 1 barn, roughly the cross-sectional area of a uranium nucleus [5] 10 −24: 1 square picometre (pm 2) 1 pm 2 10 −20: 1 square angstrom (Å 2 ...
normally a dry lake, melting snowpack and rainfall have left Tulare Lake at 168 square miles as of June 2023 [14] 35 Lake Marion: South Carolina: 165 sq mi 427 km 2: man-made 36 Leech Lake: Minnesota: 161 sq mi 417 km 2: natural 37 Sardis Lake: Mississippi: 153 sq mi 396 km 2: man-made 38 Utah Lake: Utah: 151 sq mi 391 km 2: natural 39 Lake ...
This list includes all islands in the world larger than 1,000 km 2 (390 sq mi). For size and location reference, the four continental landmasses are also shown. Continental landmasses Continental landmasses are not usually classified as islands despite being completely surrounded by water. [Note 1] However, because the definition of continent varies between geographers, the Americas are ...