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Convert between square meters, acres, square feet, hectares, and other common units with our Area Unit Converter. This intuitive unit conversion tool helps you calculate land size, floor space, and surface area across both metric and imperial systems. Whether you're working on real estate, construction, or geography tasks, our area unit conversion calculator ensures precise and instant results.
Are (a) - metric area unit
Are is a metric unit of area equal to 100 square meters. Used for measuring small land parcels, gardens, and property listings; closely related to the hectare (100 ares).
- Symbol: a
- System: Metric (non-SI, accepted for use with SI)
- Exact relations: 1 a = 100 m²; 1 ha = 100 a; 1 km² = 10,000 a
- Imperial/US equivalents: 1 a ≈ 1076.39104 ft² ≈ 119.599005 yd² ≈ 0.0247105381 acres
- Typical examples: garden plots ~1–5 a; small property subdivisions; cadastral records in parts of Europe
Square rod (sq rd; also perch, pole, lug) - traditional land area
Square rod is a historical Imperial/US customary unit of area equal to a square one rod on a side. Used in older land records and surveying alongside roods and acres.
- Symbols: sq rd, rd²; also “square perch”
- System: Imperial/US customary (historic)
- Exact relations: 1 sq rd = (16.5 ft)² = 272.25 ft² = (5.5 yd)² = 30.25 yd² = (5.0292 m)² = 25.29285264 m² (exact)
- Other relations: 40 sq rd = 1 rood; 160 sq rd = 1 acre; 16 sq rd = 1 square chain
- Typical examples: deed descriptions such as “2 roods 13 perches”; 19th-century cadastral plans