The are was defined as the measure of area equal to a square 10 metres on a side.
Alto Turiaçu, which covers an area equal to Delaware or three times that of Greater London, is a vulnerable and lucrative target.
In the following simple case, two lunes developed around the sides of a right triangle have a combined area equal to that of the triangle.
An area equal to the size of the original Louisiana Purchase, nearly 900,000 square miles, now has so few people that it meets the 19th-century Census Bureau definition of frontier, with six people or fewer per square mile.
Because it is going nearly 19 metres underground as well as 26 metres up from street level, the museum is creating 18,000 sq metres of floor area – equal to 14 Olympic-size swimming pools.
The protesters, who held white candles topped with paper cones to protect the flames from being extinguished by a light breeze, loosely covered an area equal to two American football fields.
Mr. Lu was quoted as saying that nearly 2.5percentt of all primary and middle schools in China have structural problems, on a built area equal to 360 million square feet.
This proof established that the classical Greek construction problem of squaring the circle (constructing a square with an area equal to that of a given circle) by compass and straightedge is insoluble.
Today's continental shelves and offshore banks were exposed, and there was about 18 percent more land than there is today, taking up an area equal to that of Europe and South America combined.
Stig Jarle Hansen, the Norwegian author of one of two important new books explaining the rise of the Shabab, reckons it controlled an area "equal to the size of Denmark, with perhaps 5m inhabitants" (out of perhaps 10m in all).
The three-month suspension includes an area equal to 17,200 square miles that stretches from the Sequoia National Forest north of Los Angeles, along the mountains past Yosemite National Park and Lake Tahoe, to the Modoc National Forest on the Oregon border.
