Meaning of square mile | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Synonym of City of London.
   London, informal
2. A unit of area equal to that in a square with 1 mile sides, equivalent to 2.59 km².
3. Synonym of Golden Square Mile.
   Montreal
4. A downtown, a city center.

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Examples

“Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.”

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