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Area
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Land and floor area comes in many units. Enter a value in one, pick the unit to convert to, and read the rest, handy for plots, rooms and maps.

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How the units relate

One square meter is 10.764 square feet; an acre is 4,047 square meters; and a hectare is exactly 10,000 square meters, or about 2.47 acres. A square kilometer is 100 hectares. Everything converts through the square meter.

1 hectare in acres
10,000 ÷ 4,046.86 = 2.47 acres

Picking the right one

Rooms and small plots read naturally in square meters or square feet; farmland uses acres or hectares; regions and maps use square kilometers or square miles. The conversions are exact ratios, so a survey figure stays accurate across units.

Common questions

Area converter FAQ

4,047 square meters, or about 4,840 square yards, close to a football pitch without the end zones.

A hectare is the metric unit, 10,000 square meters and about 2.47 acres. Acres are common in the US and UK.

10.764 square feet in one square meter.

640 acres, or about 2.59 square kilometers.