Convert square kilometers to square miles instantly. This crosses from the metric to the imperial/US system, and the relationship is exact: one mile is 1,609.344 metres, so one square mile is about 2,589,988 square metres, which makes one square kilometre about 0.386102 square miles. So to go from square kilometers (km…
1 square kilometer = 0.38610216 square mile · 1 square kilometer = 0.38610216 square mile
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Enter the area in square kilometers (km²) in the value box — the converter defaults to km² → mi².
Read the square mile (mi²) result instantly, or do it by hand: multiply the square kilometres by 0.386102.
Use the km²-to-mi² table below for common values, or tap ⇄ to convert square miles back to square kilometres.
Need another unit? Pick any of the 42 area units in the dropdown, then Share or Embed your conversion.
1 m²
10.7639 ft²
1 ft²
0.092903 m²
1 acre
4,046.86 m²
1 hectare
2.47105 acres
1 acre
43,560 ft²
1 hectare
10,000 m²
1 sq mile
640 acres
1 km²
0.386102 mi²
1 yd²
9 ft²
1 m²
1,550 in²
Area is measured against the square metre, the SI derived unit. Because area is length squared, each metric step is a hundredfold jump, not tenfold: a square metre is 10,000 square centimetres and 1,000,000 square millimetres. The everyday imperial units follow the same rule — a square yard is 9 square feet, and an acre is 43,560 square feet — while land is measured in acres, hectares (10,000 m²), ares and dunams. Traditional South Asian units are widely used for property: a guntha is 1⁄40 of an acre, a cent is 1⁄100 of an acre, and the bigha, katha, marla and kanal are common across India and Pakistan — though several of these vary by region, so this tool uses the most common standard values. East Asian units like the Japanese tsubo, the Korean pyeong and the Thai rai are included too, alongside the scientific barn (10⁻²⁸ m²) used for nuclear cross-sections. Every unit is stored as its exact number of square metres, so any conversion is just the input turned into square metres and then into the target unit.
Multiply the number of square kilometers by 0.386102 (or divide by 2.589988). This follows from the exact factor that one mile is 1.609344 kilometres, squared. For example, 50 km² × 0.386102 ≈ 19.31 mi². The converter does this instantly.
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