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Image comparing the hectare (the small blue area at lower left) to other units. The entire yellow square is one square mile.. The hectare (/ ˈ h ɛ k t ɛər,-t ɑːr /; SI symbol: ha) is a non-SI metric unit of area equal to a square with 100-metre sides (1 hm 2), that is, 10,000 square metres (10,000 m 2), and is primarily used in the measurement of land.
The area of one acre (red) superposed on an American football field (green) and Association football/soccer pitch (blue) 1 international acre is equal to the following metric units: 0.40468564224 hectare (A square with 100 m sides has an area of 1 hectare.) 4,046.8564224 square metres (or a square with approximately 63.61 m sides)
Other uncommon metric units of area include the tetrad, the hectad, and the myriad. The acre is also commonly used to measure land areas, where 1 acre = 4,840 square yards = 43,560 square feet. An acre is approximately 40% of a hectare. On the atomic scale, area is measured in units of barns, such that: [13] 1 barn = 10 −28 square meters.
This was an official unit of measurement in South Africa until the 1970s, and was defined in November 2007 by the South African Law Society as having a conversion factor of 1 morgen = 0.856 532 hectares. [28] This unit of measure was also used in the Dutch colonial province of New Netherland (later New York and parts of New England). [29] [30]
Maritime units: square nautical mile: sqnmi (nmi2) Q23931103: sq nmi 1.0 sq nmi (3.4 km 2; 1.3 sq mi) Middle Eastern: dunam: dunam (metric dunam) Q23931109 (none) The spellings dunum, donum and dönüm are also acceptable variants. Just replace dunam with the desired spelling in the code.
English units were the units of measurement used in England up to 1826 ... English unit SI (metric) ... Acre: 4,047 m 2: An area of land one chain (four rods) wide by ...
Scottish acre; Section (United States land surveying) Shao (unit) Sokha (unit) Square (unit) Square foot; Square inch; Square kilometre; Square metre; Square mil; Square mile; Square yard; Stremma; Survey township
The barn (b) is a unit of area used in nuclear physics equal to one hundred femtometres squared (100 fm 2 = 10 −28 m 2). The are (a) is a unit of area equal to 100 m 2. The decare (daa) is a unit of area equal to 1000 m 2. The hectare (ha) is a unit of area equal to 10 000 m 2 (0.01 km 2).