Land UnitsThe hectare is the official unit for land in India's records and statistics. A hectare is a square of 100 metres by 100 metres, so it holds 10,000 square metres. One hundredth of it, 100 square metres, is an are.
Where you meet it
Online land records in many states, crop insurance papers, farm scheme limits and land ceiling laws all state areas in hectares. Farm size classes are in hectares too: holdings below 1 hectare are called marginal and those from 1 to 2 hectares small in the agriculture census.
A hectare in local units
- 2.471 acres.
- 19.77 kanal, or about 395 marla.
- 98.84 guntha.
- 247.1 cents.
- 7.475 bigha in Assam and Meghalaya.
- About 50 nali, or 15.8 bigha, in Uttarakhand.
Reading "0-40-47" style entries
Metric land records in some states write hectare-are-square metre, for example 0-40-47. That is 0 hectare, 40 are and 47 square metres: 4,047 square metres in all, which is one acre.
Square metre to square feet
One square metre is 10.764 square feet. For a flat or a plot, multiply square metres by 10.764 to get square feet, or divide square feet by 10.764 to get square metres.
Hectare: ready table
| Hectares | Square feet | Square yards | Acres |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,07,639.1 | 11,959.9 | 2.4711 |
| 2 | 2,15,278.21 | 23,919.8 | 4.9421 |
| 3 | 3,22,917.31 | 35,879.7 | 7.4132 |
| 4 | 4,30,556.42 | 47,839.6 | 9.8842 |
| 5 | 5,38,195.52 | 59,799.5 | 12.3553 |
| 6 | 6,45,834.63 | 71,759.4 | 14.8263 |
| 7 | 7,53,473.73 | 83,719.3 | 17.2974 |
| 8 | 8,61,112.83 | 95,679.2 | 19.7684 |
| 9 | 9,68,751.94 | 1,07,639.1 | 22.2395 |
| 10 | 10,76,391.04 | 1,19,599 | 24.7105 |
| 15 | 16,14,586.56 | 1,79,398.51 | 37.0658 |
| 20 | 21,52,782.08 | 2,39,198.01 | 49.4211 |
| 25 | 26,90,977.6 | 2,98,997.51 | 61.7763 |
| 30 | 32,29,173.13 | 3,58,797.01 | 74.1316 |
| 40 | 43,05,564.17 | 4,78,396.02 | 98.8422 |
| 50 | 53,81,955.21 | 5,97,995.02 | 123.5527 |
| 75 | 80,72,932.81 | 8,96,992.53 | 185.329 |
| 100 | 1,07,63,910.42 | 11,95,990.05 | 247.1054 |
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 hectare?
1 hectare is 1,07,639.1 square feet, which is 11,959.9 square yards or 10,000 square metres. Source: definition.
How many square feet is 1 are?
1 are is 1,076.39 square feet, which is 119.599 square yards or 100 square metres. Source: definition.
How many square feet is 1 square metre?
1 square metre is 10.7639 square feet, which is 1.196 square yards or 1 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.