"square mile" meaning in English

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          "word": "square foot (1/27,878,400 sq. mi.)"
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          "word": "acre (1"
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          "_dis1": "92 8",
          "word": "640 sq. mi.)"
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          "_dis1": "92 8",
          "alt": "¼ sq. mi.",
          "word": "quarter-section"
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          "_dis1": "92 8",
          "alt": "¼ sq. mi. in Texan contexts",
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          "ref": "2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 29",
          "text": "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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        "A unit of area equal to that in a square with 1 mile sides, equivalent to 2.59 km²."
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          "word": "sq"
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          "_dis1": "92 8",
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          "word": "m²"
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          "_dis1": "92 8",
          "english": "chiefly US & Canadian govt contexts",
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          "_dis1": "100 0",
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          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "unit of area",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Quadratmeile"
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          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "unit of area",
          "word": "négyzetmérföld"
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          "sense": "unit of area",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "fermíla"
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          "lang": "Malay",
          "sense": "unit of area",
          "word": "batu persegi"
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          "lang": "Navajo",
          "sense": "unit of area",
          "word": "tsinsitą́ dikʼą́"
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          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "kvadrátnaja mílja",
          "sense": "unit of area",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "квадра́тная ми́ля"
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          "sense": "unit of area",
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        "A downtown, a city center."
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    },
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    },
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      "word": "640 sq. mi.)"
    },
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    },
    {
      "alt": "¼ sq. mi. in Texan contexts",
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "unit of area",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "Quadratmeile"
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      "sense": "unit of area",
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      "sense": "unit of area",
      "word": "tsinsitą́ dikʼą́"
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      "roman": "kvadrátnaja mílja",
      "sense": "unit of area",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "квадра́тная ми́ля"
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      "word": "ตารางไมล์"
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