square kilometre

English

Alternative forms

• square kilometer (US)

Noun

square kilometre (plural square kilometres) (British spelling, Canadian spelling)

1. Standard unit of area, symbol km², equal to the area of a square whose sides are one kilometre long; 10⁶ square metres.
   • [1996 March 21 [1996 March 18], Jixiong (0149 2623 7160) He, “There Is a Feeling of Insecurity on Jinmen, Mazu, and Other Islands”, in Daily Report: China‎^[1], numbers 96-056, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 75, column 2:

     Located at the southern end of the exercise area, Wuqiu Dao consists of two islets - Daqiucun [Dachiu-tsun^{[sic – meaning Tachiu-tsun]}] and Xiaoqiucun [Hsiaochiu-tsun] with each covering approximately one square km.]

Translations

standard unit of area

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 平方公里 (zh) (píngfāng gōnglǐ)

• Danish: kvadratkilometer c
• Dutch: vierkante kilometer (nl) m
• Esperanto: kvadrata kilometro
• Finnish: neliökilometri (fi)
• French: kilomètre carré (fr) m
• Galician: quilómetro cadrado (gl) m
• Georgian: კვადრატული კილომეტრი (ḳvadraṭuli ḳilomeṭri)
• German: Quadratkilometer (de) m
• Greek: τετραγωνικό χιλιόμετρο n (tetragonikó chiliómetro)
• Hungarian: négyzetkilométer (hu)
• Icelandic: ferkílómetri m
• Interlingua: kilometro quadrate
• Italian: chilometro quadrato (it) m, kmq (it) m, chilometro quadro m
• Japanese: 平方キロメートル (ja) (heihō kiromētoru)
• Khmer: គីឡូម៉ែត្រក្រឡា (kiiloo maet krɑlaa)
• Northern Sami: njealjehaskilomehter
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kvadratkilometer m

  Nynorsk: kvadratkilometer m

• Persian: کیلومتر مربع (kilometre morabba')
• Polish: kilometr kwadratowy (pl) m
• Portuguese: quilómetro quadrado m, quilômetro quadrado m
• Romanian: kilometru pătrat m
• Russian: квадра́тный киломе́тр m (kvadrátnyj kilométr)
• Scottish Gaelic: cilemeatair ceàrnagach m
• Spanish: kilómetro cuadrado m
• Swedish: kvadratkilometer (sv) c
• Tagalog: kilometrong kuwadrado
• Thai: ตารางกิโลเมตร (th)
• Turkish: kilometrekare
• Volapük: kvadamilmet (vo)

Anagrams

• square kilometer