Land UnitsEvery local land unit in India was at some point tied to the acre by a survey or settlement. That makes the acre the easiest bridge between them: change your unit to acres, then acres to the unit you want.
The size
One acre is 4,840 square yards. That is 43,560 square feet, 4,046.86 square metres or 0.4047 hectare. A square acre has a side of about 208.7 feet.
An acre in local units
- 8 kanal, or 160 marla (Haryana, Punjab). There the acre is called a killa or ghuman.
- 40 guntha (Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana).
- 100 cents or decimals (Kerala, Tamil Nadu, the east).
- 3.025 bigha in Assam and Meghalaya.
- 6.4 bigha, or about 20.17 nali, in Uttarakhand.
- 1.6 bigha of the 165 foot jarib; 2.5 bigha of the 132 foot jarib (Rajasthan).
How big does it look?
A killa field in a consolidated Haryana village is 198 feet by 220 feet: that rectangle is exactly one acre. As a rough picture, an acre is a little more than half a full-size football pitch.
Acre and hectare
Government records are moving to hectares. One hectare is 2.471 acres, and one acre is 0.4047 hectare. To change acres to hectares quickly, multiply by 0.4; to change hectares to acres, multiply by 2.5. The quick way is off by about 1%.
Acre: ready table
| Acres | Square feet | Square yards | Acres |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 43,560 | 4,840 | 1 |
| 2 | 87,120 | 9,680 | 2 |
| 3 | 1,30,680 | 14,520 | 3 |
| 4 | 1,74,240 | 19,360 | 4 |
| 5 | 2,17,800 | 24,200 | 5 |
| 6 | 2,61,360 | 29,040 | 6 |
| 7 | 3,04,920 | 33,880 | 7 |
| 8 | 3,48,480 | 38,720 | 8 |
| 9 | 3,92,040 | 43,560 | 9 |
| 10 | 4,35,600 | 48,400 | 10 |
| 15 | 6,53,400 | 72,600 | 15 |
| 20 | 8,71,200 | 96,800 | 20 |
| 25 | 10,89,000 | 1,21,000 | 25 |
| 30 | 13,06,800 | 1,45,200 | 30 |
| 40 | 17,42,400 | 1,93,600 | 40 |
| 50 | 21,78,000 | 2,42,000 | 50 |
| 75 | 32,67,000 | 3,63,000 | 75 |
| 100 | 43,56,000 | 4,84,000 | 100 |
For a sale, a loan or a court paper, go by your own revenue record. Local units can differ between districts and between old and new records. The sizes here were read in the official documents named under Sources on 11 November 2026. This site is not a government site and gives no legal advice.
Questions people ask
How many square feet is 1 acre?
1 acre is 43,560 square feet, which is 4,840 square yards or 4,046.86 square metres. Source: definition.
Sources
- Fixed by definition: the international yard is exactly 0.9144 metre, a square yard is 9 square feet and an acre is 4,840 square yards.