1,000 metres in a kilometre, so a square kilometre is 1,000m x 1,000m, or 1,000,000m2.
A million square metres in a square kilometre.
One square kilometer is 1,000,000 square meters.
Answering "How many decimal places to the right do you move to change kilometer square to meter square?"
One square kilometer is 1,000,000 square meters.
You can't convert that. A meter is a unit of length. A square kilometer is a unit of area.
1 kilometer = 1000 meter
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1,000 meter = 1 kilometer 300 meter = 0.3 kilometer
1 square kilometer has 1 million square meters in it.
The word is "hectar". One hectar is 10,000 square meters (or 1/100 of a square kilometer).
Square meter, square kilometer, square millimeter, etc.
Convert everything to meters: 1 km = 1000 m 1 in = 0.0254 m Divide the length of a kilometer by the length of a meter, then square the result.
There are 1000 meters in a kilometer.