A square mile is an area. It can have any shape - a circle, a triangle, quadrilateral, any polygon, or just a random shape. A long thin rectangle will be fewer feet across than a squat rectangle with the same area. So how many feet across depends on the shape.
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1 square mile = 27,878,400 square feet.
Since a mile is 5280 ft, a square mile contains 5280x5280=27,878,400 square feet. That is almost 28 million square feet.
1 square mile = 27,878,400 square feet.
There are no square feet in a mile.There are 27,878,400 square feet in a squaremile.
Miles are distance units, square feet are area units, so there are no square feet in a mile. There are, however, 5 280 linear feet in a mile, so one square mile equals 27 878 400 square feet (5280^2).