Land UnitsOne unit, several names. In Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh it is the cent. In eastern India the same hundredth of an acre is called a decimal, dismil or shatak. The land records data standard lists "1 acre = 100 cents" for Kerala and Tamil Nadu and gives the Jharkhand dismil as 40.46 square metres.
The size
An acre is 43,560 square feet, so a cent is 435.6 square feet. In metric it is 40.47 square metres. Official tables often round it to 40 square metres or 435 square feet, which is close enough for talk but not for a sale deed.
Quick sums
- 5 cents = 2,178 square feet.
- 10 cents = 4,356 square feet. In Andhra Pradesh 10 cents is one kuncham.
- 2.5 cents = 1 guntha.
- 1 are (100 square metres) = 2.471 cents.
Cent and "ground"
In Chennai, plots are also sold by the ground. We have not found an official table that defines the ground, so it is not in our converter. If your document gives the ground in square feet, type that value under "My local unit".
Decimal is not a decimal point
"12 decimal land" means 12 hundredths of an acre, 0.12 acre, or 5,227.2 square feet. The word comes from writing acres to two decimal places.
Cent (decimal, dismil): ready table
| Cents (decimals) | Square feet | Square yards | Acres |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 435.6 | 48.4 | 0.01 |
| 2 | 871.2 | 96.8 | 0.02 |
| 3 | 1,306.8 | 145.2 | 0.03 |
| 4 | 1,742.4 | 193.6 | 0.04 |
| 5 | 2,178 | 242 | 0.05 |
| 6 | 2,613.6 | 290.4 | 0.06 |
| 7 | 3,049.2 | 338.8 | 0.07 |
| 8 | 3,484.8 | 387.2 | 0.08 |
| 9 | 3,920.4 | 435.6 | 0.09 |
| 10 | 4,356 | 484 | 0.1 |
| 15 | 6,534 | 726 | 0.15 |
| 20 | 8,712 | 968 | 0.2 |
| 25 | 10,890 | 1,210 | 0.25 |
| 30 | 13,068 | 1,452 | 0.3 |
| 40 | 17,424 | 1,936 | 0.4 |
| 50 | 21,780 | 2,420 | 0.5 |
| 75 | 32,670 | 3,630 | 0.75 |
| 100 | 43,560 | 4,840 | 1 |
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 cent (decimal, dismil)?
1 cent (decimal, dismil) is 435.6 square feet, which is 48.4 square yards or 40.47 square metres. Source: the Government of India land records data standard.
How many square feet is 1 kuncham?
1 kuncham is 4,356 square feet, which is 484 square yards or 404.69 square metres. Source: the Government of India land records data standard.
Sources
- Meta Data and Data Standards (MDDS), Annexure IV, code directory CD00.01 Measurement units, Table 1.3 Conversion Factors. Ministry of Electronics and IT, Government of India; the table credits the Department of Land Resources. Open the document