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Comparison of 1 square metre with some Imperial and metric units of area. The square metre (international spelling as used by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures) or square meter (American spelling) is the unit of area in the International System of Units (SI) with symbol m 2. [1]
Sq m is an abbreviation for: Square mile , a unit of surface area in the systems of Imperial and U.S. units and more usually abbreviated to sq mile or sq mi Square metre , a unit of surface area in the metric system and more usually abbreviated to m 2
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.
398,000 m 2 (4,280,000 sq ft) 13.3 million m 3 (472 million cu ft) Boeing's assembly site for a selection of the company's largest aircraft, originally built for construction of the 747 .
The Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet, with 1000 rooms on 13 levels, and over 130,000 square metres (1,400,000 sq ft) of floor space, [2] is one of the largest palaces in the world by floor area. It was the winter residence of the Dalai Lama until 1959. (Many sources [3] give the area as 360,000 square metres (3,900,000 sq ft).)
As a continent, Europe's total geographical area is about 10 million square kilometres. [2] Transcontinental countries are ranked according to the size of their European part only, excluding Greece due to the not clearly defined boundaries of its islands between Europe and Asia. Inland water is included in area numbers.
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Square metre (sqm), a unit of area; Sky quality meter, an instrument for measuring the luminance of the night sky; Supersymmetric quantum mechanics, in theoretical ...