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Area Conversion

This metric and imperial area conversion tool has been designed to be easy to use. Simply select what you would like to convert from and to, enter a value and click the 'Convert!' button. Default rounding is set to a maximum of 14 decimal places. If you like this website, please tell your friends about it.

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Conversion units currently available for the Area Converter:

Acres (ac), Ares (a), Barns (b), Hectares (ha), Square Angstroms, Square Astronomical Units, Square Centimeters (cm2), Square Decimeters (dm2), Square Dekameters (dam2), Square Fathoms, Square Feet (ft2), Square Hectometers (hm2), Square Inches (in2), Square Kilometers (km2), Square Lightyears, Square Meters (m2), Square Micrometers (µm2), Square Microns, Square Miles (mi2), Square Millimeters (mm2), Square Millimicrons, Square Nanometers (nm2), Square Parsecs, Square Rods, Square Yards (yd2),

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Area Conversion Definitions

Acre

The acre is a unit of area in a number of different systems, including the imperial and U.S. customary systems. The acre is often used to express areas of land. Full description is available on Wikipedia.

Are

Are is a unit of area, equal to 100 square metres (10 m × 10 m), used for measuring land area. It was defined by older forms of the metric system, but is now outside of the modern International System (SI). Full description is available on Wikipedia.

Barn

A barn is a unit of area. While the barn is not an International System of Units (SI) unit, it is accepted (although discouraged) for use with the SI. Originally used in nuclear physics for expressing the cross sectional area of nuclei and nuclear reactions, today it is used in all fields of high energy physics to express the cross sections of any scattering process. Full description is available on Wikipedia.

Hectare

A hectare is a unit of area equal to 10,000 square metres (107,639 sq ft), or one square hectometre (100 metres, squared), and commonly used for measuring land area. It is most commonly used in the surveying profession for day to day legal documents such as land deeds, mortgage surveys, town planning, environmental protection, and other necessary property considerations under the law. Full description is available on Wikipedia.


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