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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