Square-miles Sentence Examples

The rose gardens cover several square miles.

It is occupied by the branches and offshoots of the mountain ranges which separate it from the great plain to the north, and send down their lateral ridges close to the water's edge, leaving only in places a few square miles of level plains at the mouths of the rivers and openings of the valleys.

Hemsley remarks that the northerr genus Erica, which covers thousands of square miles in Europe with very few species, is represented by hundreds of species in I comparatively small area in South Africa.

During the rains the Brahmaputra floods hundreds of square miles of country, reaching a height of 30 to 40 ft.

Large areas of these great river plains are annually flooded, the flood-plains of the Amazon extending nearly across the whole country and comprising thousands of square miles.

The 4th duke planted several square miles of the estate with this tree, of which he had made a special study.

So uniform is the level over a great part of these plains that in the rainy season hundreds of square miles are submerged, and the country is covered with a network of connecting channels.

As we are still ignorant of the proportions of land and water in the polar regions, it is only possible to give approximate figures for the extent of the ocean, for the position of the coast-lines is not known exactly enough to exclude possible errors of perhaps several hundred thousand square miles in estimates of the total area.

It occupies an area of 44 square miles and has a drainage basin of 372 square miles.

Owing to the proximity of two oceans, and the varied configuration of the surface of Costa Rica, an area of a few square miles may exhibit the most striking extremes of climate; but, over the entire country, it is possible to distinguish three climatic zones - tropical, temperate and cold.

Some of the well-known beds of coal are known to be continuous for several h Ch k thousands of square miles.

States, exclusive of Alaska, Areas (excluding water), in square miles.

The trade from the wide extent of three-quarters of a million of square miles of prairie and woodland, becoming more populous every year, must flow as through a narrow spout at Winnipeg; every railway must pass through Winnipeg.

The water of most of the springs and geysers holds silica in solution in considerable quantities, so that as it cools and evaporates it deposits a dazzling white sinter which has covered many square miles of the valleys and contrasts strongly with the dark green of the surrounding forests.

The lakes vary in size from mere pools to sheets of water several square miles in area.

It appears to have resembled in its main features those remarkable outpourings of basalt which have deluged so many thousand square miles of the western area of the United States.

By the end of the 19th century 120 square miles had been occupied by cattle and sheep on the Argentine side, and about the same extent on the Chilean; and the cattle industry proved very profitable.

Thousands of square miles in Lower Bengal annually receive a top-dressing of virgin soil from the Himalayas, - a system of natural manuring which renders elaborate tillage a waste of labour, and defies the utmost power of over-cropping to exhaust its fertility.

At this time the rice fields to the extent of many hundreds of square miles are submerged.

The municipality of Debreczen owns between three hundred and four hundred square miles of the adjoining country, which possesses all the characteristics of the Hungarian puszta, and on which roam large herds of cattle.

The constitution also provides for the establishment of a new county, " whenever one-third of the qualified electors within the area of each section of an old county proposed to be cut off to form a new county shall petition the governor .for the creation of a new county," whereupon the governor " shall order an election within a reasonable time thereafter," and if two-thirds of the voters vote " yes," the General Assembly at the next session shall establish the new county, provided that no section of a county shall be cut off without the consent of two-thirds of those voting in such section; that no new county " shall contain less than one one hundred and twenty-fourth part of the whole number of inhabitants of the state, nor shall it have less assessed taxable property than one and one-half millions of dollars, nor shall it contain an area of less than four hundred square miles "; and that " no old county shall be reduced to less area than five hundred square miles, to less assessed taxable property than two million dollars, nor to a smaller population than fifteen thousand inhabitants."

Some are a few square miles in extent, others are merely rocky cones projecting from the deep. For purposes of administration they are divided between St Vincent and Grenada.

The most remarkable geographical feature of Seistan generally, in the modern acceptation of the term, is the Hamun, which stretches far and wide on the north, west and south, but is for a great part of the year dry or a mere swamp. It is a curious feature in the physical conformation of northern and western Afghanistan that none of the rivers flow to the sea, but that the Helmund and all the other rivers of western Afghanistan empty themselves into these lagoons, which spread over thousands of square miles.

Sometimes the water of entire rivers or vast artificial reservoirs (pdiitanos) is used in feeding a dense network of canals distributed over plains many square miles in extent.

The Bahamas is made up of 700 islands and 2,000 sand cays that stretch across 100,000 square miles between Florida and Cuba.

It flows into the Arabian Sea, forming a delta, which covers 3000 square miles.

The county famed for it's university city of ' Dreaming Spires ' covers an expanse of just over 1,000 square miles.

Farming is the predominant industry among the estimated 32,000 inhabitants of the DCU, which has a total landmass of 235 square miles.

Imagine a million square miles of empty desert, an unmapped land patched with treacherous quicksand, a blisteringly hot place lashed by sandstorms.

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The bustling town of Mansfield is the focal point for a compact district of 30 square miles.

Under British rule it is estimated that 10 millions perished within the Lower Provinces alone in the famine of 1769-1770; and the first surveyor-general of Bengal entered on his maps a tract of many hundreds of square miles as bare of villages and "depopulated by the Maghs."

To set up this single plant operation, 5,600 square miles of Amazon Rainforest was burned to the ground and replanted with pulpwood trees.

Are charges for a unified empire its square miles.

The Navajo nation is the largest Indian reservation in the U.S., covering over 24,000 square miles in Arizona, Utah and New Mexico.

The mountains make up 2400 square miles that overlooks the Delaware Water Gap and borders Lake Wallenpaupack.

The total gaming area consists of about 80 square miles.

The Sonoma County wine industry is one of the largest in the United States, and the county is California's top producing wine region, with nearly 1800 square miles and 60,000 square acres of wine grapes planted each year.

When you begin to study the facts of Yellowstone National Park, which covers 3468 square miles (or 2,219,789 acres) through Wyoming, Montana and Idaho, you are diving into an exciting story of the history of the United States.

To see the entire park and all it has to offer, you will be walking and/or biking through nearly 15 square miles.

The rectangular park covers 1,017 acres, or over one and a half square miles.

The most popular of the Big Island attractions, Volcanoes National Park, established in 1916, encompasses 377 square miles.

Spain is still a monarchy and as such the Kingdom of Spain has a land mass of 194,992 square miles.