Meanings
plural square kilometers
- USstandardUS standard spelling of square kilometre.
1 more example
When classes start in September, the University of Macau’s new campus — still under construction on about a square kilometer, or roughly 250 acres, on Hengqin Island in southern Guangdong Province — will be “handed over” to Macau governance in accordance with a 2009 bill by the National People’s Congress in Beijing.
2013 July 14, Joyce Lau, Calvin Yang, “University of Macau Moves Over the China Border”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Jul 2013, Asia Pacific
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna decimal multiple of the unit of surface area, the square metre, equal to 1,000,000 square meters.
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Cite this entry
square kilometer. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/square%20kilometer
“square kilometer.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/square%20kilometer. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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