A mile squared is a mile long and a mile wide, forming a square, so if you walked the width or the length of a squared, you would walk a mile.
A mile is a linear measurement, it measures a distance. A square mile, as with a square kilometre, is an area and measures the amount of ground something covers.
You cannot change miles to square miles or vice versa.
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A square mile is an area measurement, not a specific shape. They could be just about anything, as long as they multiply together to make one square mile. 1 mile by 1 mile is a square mile. Two miles by half a mile is a square mile. 1 foot by 5280 miles is a square mile. This means that 8 square miles can be 2 miles by 4 miles or 1 mile by 8 miles.
About 0.0072 square mile.
About 1/4 square mile.
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44,000 square feet is 0.001578 square mile.