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The height of each mountain measured thousands of feet, and the surface area covered hundreds of square miles.

The China oil spill is now 165 square miles, but still just a fraction of the size of the BP oil spill in Gulf.

The oil slick covers thousands of square miles and is big enough to be easily seen from space by NASA satellites.

I was the only human being in an area one-and-a-half times the size of America; five-and-a-half thousand square miles.

In reality, the Great Reclamation would be a modest operation compared with wresting 3, 200 square miles of the Netherlands from the sea.

Forests have been cut down at the rate of 278 square miles a year.

Have been cut down at the rate of 278 square miles a year.

Though they cover just 30 square miles, the dunes reach up to 750 feet high and are the tallest sand dunes in the United States.

A report in the Los Angeles Times describes "burn fields" of 500 square miles in which 16 controlled burns will take place in one day.

While demand is relatively high, supply is tight, given that this densely populated region spans only about 426 square miles.

Much of the European continent in that area is a low-lying, soggy saucer almost like everglades, spreading over thousands of square miles.

The eruption's spew was enough to blanket up to 18 million square miles of land and sea.

Fossil sites run up and down both lengths of that lake basin , which represents some 20, 000 square miles .

Brazil's forests were being cleared at the rate of almost 7, 000 square miles a year.

Houston famously has no zoning, which helps explain why the city covers some 600 square miles.

It was unknown if the coral base of the island, about 12 square miles, might be subsiding.

The array, which would cover up to two square kilometers (0. 8 square miles), would be assembled by robots.

Bridges from Virginia into Washington will be closed to cars as well more than three square miles of downtown Washington.

Now it's less than a tenth of that size. Left behind are 15, 000 square miles of salty, toxin-laden lake bed.

For what reason have I this vast range and circuit, some square miles of unfrequented forest, for my privacy, abandoned to me by men?

At its low point, the Tonle Sap has an area of 2, 700 square kilometres (1, 000 square miles), much of it just a metre deep.

How can the residents go 100 miles from the coastlines when the surface area of all the Marquesas, combined, are only 405 square miles?

Decades after the reforestation along the Gobi began, the desert still claims more than a thousand square miles of land annually.

Trees cover 95% of the park's 800 square miles, making it a leaf peeper's paradise.

Don, in addition to being the only pharmacist, is probably the most talkative and friendly person within four thousand square miles.

These isolated mountains cover thousands of square miles and their rich and untouched forests were declared a national park in 2001.

By 2020, Mr. Zhao says, additional enlargement will turn Zhengzhou into a city of five million covering 193 square miles.

The dam would create a lake of up to 450 square kms (175 square miles), flooding some 60 villages, as well as roads and forest.

The plan is to get rid of this levee on the Mississippi River, which will flood about 200 square miles of land in Missouri.

The scientists estimate the lake covered as much as 80 square miles and was up to 1, 500 feet deep.

I often thought, how could I give up my car in a city with minimal mass transit and an area that encompasses 131 square miles?

"It only works over a few dozen square miles, " he says.

The ancient city, with its huge walls, terraces and ramps, covers an area of about 126 square miles (326 square kilometers).

If the homes were spread equally across the Earth's landmass of 60m square miles, the distance between households would be 0. 26 miles.

Water flowing out of the mountains has formed a massive lake, 110 square miles.

We have diesel pumps, pre-stressed concrete and eastern European labour to help us reclaim just 1, 800 square miles of seabed.

The Golden Triangle covered more than 370, 000 square miles and was home to several hill tribes whose members cultivated the opium.

By 2006, Rio won the rights to mine 300 square miles of what promised to be the world's largest reserve of unexplored iron ore.

WCS and the U. S. government are now working with southern Sudan's government to create a special area spanning some 77, 000 square miles.

The total battlefield, a sandy spar between a deep lagoon and the Indian Ocean, is now around 6. 5 square kilometres (2. 5 square miles).

It's an awe-inspiring sight: massive ice fields and blue-white glaciers span 27 square miles of the Cordillera Oriental mountain range.

Plug in the last party flags, etc, just after the place ZhenFa qi, decorate suddenly formed a square miles in diameter of ZhenFa space.

Announced the expansion of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary by 775 square miles to include the Davidson Sea Mount.

A floating fishing camp drifts in the Sudd, one of Africa's largest wetlands-more than 20, 000 square miles in the rainy season.

Angkor was the world's largest pre-industrial city, growing to an area of about 390 square miles.

another 30, 000 square miles of Mexican land were added to the territory of the U. S. , in return, the U. S. paid 10 million dollars.

To meet the 2050 projection, 46, 000 square miles of land would be needed for photovoltaic and concentrated solar power installations.

Today, informal settlement has become an industry spread over hundreds of square miles surrounding Karachi.

Jaguars live alone and define territories of many square miles by marking with their waste or clawing trees .

Yakutia, the region of which it is the capital, covers more than a million square miles, but it is home to fewer than one million people.

The North American continent, consisting of the United States and Canada, covers an area of approximately 7 300 000 square miles.

On October 8, 1871, a huge fire started near Chicago's downtown area and burned four square miles to the ground before it was extinguished.

The day fire has scorched 223 square miles since it was sparked by someone burning debris on Labor Day.

But officials promised that all 19 square miles of the competition area will be cleared by the start of the games.

Satellite images starting Feb. 28 show the runaway disintegration of a chunk covering 414 square kilometers, or 160 square miles.

The solar systems would require 165, 000 square miles of land, still less than the suitable available area in the Southwest.

The size of the offshore area affected by the spill is likely more than 400 square miles (1, 000 square kilometers), he added.

Santa Ana winds continue to fan the blaze as it scorched nearly 189 square miles.

With a density of nine persons per 22 square miles, it's the most sparsely populated country in the world.

The results were devastating: almost 17 square miles of the city were reduced to ashes.

To make room for newcomers and industrial growth, the urban imprint has increased by almost 400 square miles.

At the peak of that closure, the government had banned fishing in 88, 522 square miles, comprising 37 percent of federal waters in the Gulf.

Scientists believe one may have burst above Siberia in 1908, unleashing a shock wave so powerful it flattened 800 square miles of forest.

Katy ISD is a flourishing suburban school district that encompasses 181 square miles in east Texas.

The 1986 reactor explosion killed some 30 people, caused a fire to burn for 10 days and left tens of thousands of square miles contaminated.

One way of answering the question is to take its total area: 95, 000 square miles.

It will include a hotel, serviced apartments, luxury flats, and offices occupying around 852 square miles.

The zoo, covering two square miles, attracts many visitors.

The Great Bear's 25, 000 square miles represent a fourth of North America's coastal temperate rain forests.

Spread over ten square kilometres (four square miles), it is the biggest integrated chemical site in the world.

The blaze was only about five per cent contained and had scorched 71 square miles in the Angeles national forest.

the closest rival to angkor , the mayan city of tical in guatemala , was roughly 50 square miles in total size.

Geology A body of intrusive igneous rock of which less than 100 square kilometers (40 square miles) is exposed.

In Mato Grosso, 700 square miles of rain forest was stripped in the last five months of 2007 alone.

Floating sea ice covers about 11 million square miles of Earth's oceans in the Arctic and Antarctic regions.

Palm tree plantation in Borneo. Every year we lose 50 thousand square miles in deforestation.

Just 25 square miles of the crop could make insulin for the entire world.

How can a mere 100 square miles cut through by a railroad be called a wilderness?

Some 34 square miles have been blackened since Thursday.

Over the past 30 years, however, nearly 373, 000 square miles of the rainforest have been felled in Brazil alone.

Today, Yosemite includes nearly 1, 200 square miles of the central Sierra Nevada mountain range.

Overall, the reserve is around 140, 000 square miles in size, larger than the Great Barrier Reef in Australia.

Underground cities cover more than 100 square miles and there are churches, prisons and shelters.

The feeds have put another 1100 square miles of the Gulf off limits for fishing.

The sprawling mega project, first announced in 2008, will cover two square miles at its base.

Males defend the pride's land which may include some 100 square miles (259 square kilometers) of grasslands or open woodlands.

Wang Tao, a leading Chinese desert scholar, reports that each year some 1, 400 square miles of land in northern China turn to desert.

Red wolf territories in northeastern North Carolina vary in size, but most are estimated to range between 38 to 87 square miles.

T. Boone Pickens's now-infamous plan would require 1, 200 square miles for a single power plant.

In China, where the Gobi Desert is growing by 10, 400 square kilometers (4, 000 square miles) a year, the refugee stream is swelling.

There would be 800 floors with 26 square miles of space capable of housing anywhere between 500, 000 - 1 million people.

Now cultivated fields surround the mere 30 square miles of Gombe National Park.

Olympic National Park encompasses 1, 441 square miles of the Olympic Peninsula.

Our planet's surface covers 197 million square miles with 57 million square miles of land and the rest as water.

In dry northeastern Brazil, Australian eucalyptus covers more than 15, 000 square miles.

The ice shelf has lost a total of 694 square miles over the past 12 months, representing some 14 per cent of its size.

A rise of just 16 feet would affect 669 million people and 2 million square miles of land would be lost.

Nearly 8, 000 square miles of densely forested river delta, spanning the borders of India and Bangladesh.

Zhengdong New District covers 58 square miles -- somewhat bigger than San Francisco.

What's the area of the Canada in square miles?

Sydneys urban area covers an area of 1687 square kilometers (651 square miles), covering an area comparable with the Greater London.

The territory the United States owns outside the mainland totals 605, 801 square miles.

It covers an area of about 700 square kilometers (270 square miles) and has two parts: Huang Long and Muni Gorge.

The few square miles of forest here are home to 14 new species found nowhere else.

Prior to 1870, however, political control by papal governments in central Italy spanned approximately 16. 000 square miles.

The Vancouver Sun reports that the massive dinosaur bonebed is 1. 43-square miles in size.

In the United State, a block is typically 9 square miles.

The city covers an area of ten square miles.

Such toxic lakes still cover 170 square kilometres (66 square miles) which entummyle it to keep growing- good RSC.

s the area of the Congo in square miles?

The city covers ten square miles.

If all goes well, Silver Lining plans to test the process with 10 ships spread throughout 3800 square miles of ocean.

As weighing in at a mere 0. 17 square miles, Vatican holds the title of being the smallest country in the world.

Algae blooms now affect more than 5, 000 square miles of seawater, Xinhua reported.

There is the fact that the county covers more than 4, 000 square miles.

By comparison, Shenzhen, biggest and most famous of China's original SEZs, covers 126 square miles.

This is a true blessing for Vatican City, as with a mere 0. 17 square miles, it holds the title of being the smallest country in the world.

The blast spread rock and ash (gray in the images) over 230 square miles (600 square kilometers).

In the Antarctic, meanwhile, wintertime ice has extended its range by about 1%, or almost 39, 000 square miles, a decade.

Tiny Macau S. A. R. , a mere 18 square miles in size, surpassed Las Vegas in gambling revenues in 2007.

Abandoned in 1972, the 2. 1 square miles scream out for use.

The Shanghai Expo defies expectations, stretching for 2. 04 square miles.

those deposits cover more than10 square kilometers (4 square miles).

The structure would consist of 8 layers stacked on top of each other which would have a total area of 34 square miles.

Since independence Singapore's land area has grown from under 600 square kilometres (230 square miles) to around 700.

Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara, the army's spokesman, says the Tigers are confined to 300 square km (116 square miles).

The delta spreads over a massive 65, 000 square miles.

They cover an area of 40 square miles and are perfectly white.

The Balad base north of Baghdad covers 14 square miles.

The spill spread over 165 square miles and posed a serious threat to both sea life and water quality.

Depending on the location, there are one to 20 tigers in a given area of 39 square miles.

Of its 200 inhabited islands, which are spread across an area of 35, 000 square miles, 99 are dedicated resorts.

What drives them to spend their whole lives on this peninsula of land that is merely 150 square miles in size?

Such toxic lakes still cover 170 square kilometres (66 square miles) and will keep growing, according to the RSC.

The city adcovers square miles.

The swarming jellies covered 10 square miles of water.

It covers an area of 340 square miles near Killeen, some 50 miles from Waco, Texas.

Built in 1971 on almost four square miles (10 sq km), it has a daily throughput of 225, 000 barrels of crude oil.

All in all, the Romas' area covers about 12 square miles (about 19 km).

At more than 1. 3 million square miles, the Congo Basin has the world's second-largest rainforest, after the Amazon's.

The Salar de Uyuni is the world's largest salt pan, covering approximately 8, 000 square kilometers (3, 100 square miles) of the Altiplano.

Ward Hunt Ice Shelf, which halved in July, lost an additional 22 square kilometers (8. 5 square miles).

rapidly melting the mighty icecap that covers some 80 percent of Greenland's 840, 000 square miles.

She'll range over 60 square miles in search of food.

The Lena River is the world's 10th longest, stretching 2, 800 miles and draining almost a million square miles of Siberia.

In adjacent Trinity County, there is sometimes nobody free to patrol its 3, 200 square miles of forest.

The average lone male in central Idaho may range over 1, 500 square miles in search of food or a mate.

At 12, 079 square miles (31, 285 square kilometers), Vancouver Island is the largest island on North America's Pacific Coast.

When it blew up it flattened some 2, 000 square kilometres (800 square miles) of forest.

In Sindh Province alone, more than 27, 000 square kilometers (10, 500 square miles) remained submerged.

The Niger Delta extends over 12, 400 square miles along Nigeria'sAtlantic coast.

The Heiltskuk Icefield covers about 1, 389 square miles of British Columbia.

Some 7, 255 square miles were cleared in the preceding year.

Located mostly in Wyoming and partly in Montana and Idaho, the park's lakes, canyons, rivers and mountains span 3, 472 square miles.

Nazi Germany owned about 268, 829 square miles of land.

Of course, these mirrors would each be over 50 square miles in size and they are beyond expensive.

The park, with an area of about 3. 5 square miles (9 square km), is situated in Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia.

That amounts to some 35, 000 square miles, larger than the state of South Carolina.

When the river swells and floods, it creates an alluvial fan of more than 10, 000 square miles (26, 000 square kilometers).

It covers roughly 371, 000 square kilometers (143, 200 square miles) and borders five countries.

Drainage area (including the Delta) in excess of 220, 000 square kilometers (85, 000 square miles).

the rebound the following year, such as it was, added a mere 7, 700 square miles.

By 1900, nearly a million people lived on the 3, 435 square miles of Puerto Rico.

At 270 square miles, it's small compared to sprawling parks such as Yellowstone, the world's first national park.

Since 2000, China has lost nearly 1, 400 square miles each year to desert.

The park today encompasses 400 square miles around Mount Rainier, which is actually an active volcano.

The Tampa Bay area covers some 2, 000 square miles, and Greater Orlando spans over 4, 000.

Petermann Glacier spawned smaller ice islands in 2001 (34 square miles) and 2008 (10 square miles).

PERU'S forests cover 72m hectares of the country (278, 000 square miles). That is three times the area of Britain.

A wolf pack can have a territory as large as 50 square miles. Some can get as large 1, 000 square miles.

In Hong Kong many square miles of land have been reclaimed from the sea.

The oily sheen now covers some 2, 500 square miles (6, 500 sq km).

The 23rd district is immense, at about 14, 700 square miles (38, 000 square km).

It leveled 4. 4 square miles of the city and killed between 70, 000 and 80, 000 persons.

Area city, 199 square miles (516 square km); metropolitan area, 1, 907 square miles (4, 939 square km).

I grew up in Hong Kong, with six million people in 40 square miles.

In February last year a 164- square-mile chunk broke off. Then in May another slab of ice, this time measuring 62 square miles, fell away.

About 2, 500 miles (4, 000 km) from the mainland, Hawaii has less than 6, 500 square miles (16, 800 square km) of land.

It covers a massive 1, 220, 000 square kilometers (470, 920 square miles), which is about 12. 8 % of the whole of China.

Within Hong Kong's borders are 19 square miles of water, almost five percent of the city's total surface area.

children of the outback, learning their lessons by radio in a "classroom" covering a million square miles

In 2004 some 2. 8m hectares (10, 700 square miles) of the Amazon were razed; last year only around 750, 000 hectares were.