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  2. United States customary units - Wikipedia

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    The most widely used area unit with a name unrelated to any length unit is the acre.The National Institute of Standards and Technology formerly contended that customary area units are defined in terms of the square survey foot, not the square international foot, but from 2023 it states that "although historically defined using the U.S. survey foot, the statute mile can be defined using either ...

  3. Hectare - Wikipedia

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    The entire yellow square is one square mile. The hectare ( / ˈhɛktɛər, - tɑːr /; 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 meters (10,000 m 2 ), and is primarily used in the measurement of land. There are 100 hectares in one square kilometre.

  4. Area - Wikipedia

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    Area is the measure of a region 's size on a surface. The area of a plane region or plane area refers to the area of a shape or planar lamina, while surface area refers to the area of an open surface or the boundary of a three-dimensional object. Area can be understood as the amount of material with a given thickness that would be necessary to ...

  5. English units - Wikipedia

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    An area of land one chain (four rods) wide by one furlong in length. As the traditional furlong could vary in length from country to country, so did the acre. In England an acre was 4,840 square yards (4,050 m 2), in Scotland 6,150 square yards (5,140 m 2) and in Ireland 7,840 square yards (6,560 m 2). It is a Saxon unit, meaning "field ...

  6. List of U.S. states and territories by area - Wikipedia

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    The second largest state, Texas, has only 40% of the total area of the largest state, Alaska. Rhode Island is the smallest state by total area and land area. San Bernardino County is the largest county in the contiguous U.S. and is larger than each of the nine smallest states; it is larger than the four smallest states combined.

  7. Acre - Wikipedia

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    The entire yellow square is one square mile; the dark blue area at right represents 100 acres. The acre ( / ˈeɪkər / AY-kər) is a unit of land area used in the British imperial and the United States customary systems. It is traditionally defined as the area of one chain by one furlong (66 by 660 feet ), which is exactly equal to 10 square ...

  8. List of countries and dependencies by area - Wikipedia

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    Dymaxion map of the world with the 30 largest countries and territories by area. This is a list of the world's countries and their dependencies by land, water, and total area, ranked by total area. The entries in this list include, but are not limited to, those in the ISO 3166-1 standard, which includes sovereign states and dependent territories.

  9. Nepalese customary units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    0.503206915. 10.76391042. 1. In a nutshell, The following is a partial list of everyday units used to calculate land area in Nepal. [3] [4] 1 Khetmuri = 25 Ropani. 1 Bigha (बिघा) = 20 Kattha (कठ्ठा) = 6772.63 m 2 = 72900 sq.ft. = 13.31 Ropani. 1 Katha (कठ्ठा) = 20 Dhur (धुर) = 338.63 m 2 = 3645 sq.ft.