square kilometer

noun

a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one kilometer on each side. : km 2 , sq. km

At present European Russia has about 19.4 inhabitants to the square kilometer; Saxony has over 300.

It has two hundred and forty-seven inhabitants for each square kilometer.

On one square kilometer (about three-fifths of a square mile) of the battle field of Campulung 6,000 Rumanian dead were counted.

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