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| | Articles - Square mile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03) |
 | | A square mile is an Imperial unit / U.S. customary unit of area equal to that of a square with sides each 1 statute mile (5,280 feet, 1,760 yards, 1,609.344 metres) in length. |
 | | The SI unit of area is the square metre. |
 | | 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. |
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