Square yard
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The square yard (Northern India: gaj, Pakistan: gaz) is an imperial unit and U.S. customary unit of area, formerly used in most of the English-speaking world, but now generally replaced by the square metre. However, it is still in widespread use in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Pakistan and India. It is defined as the area of a square with sides of one yard (three feet, thirty-six inches, 0.9144 metres) in length.
Comparison of 1 square yard with some Imperial and metric units of area
Contents
Symbols
There is no universally agreed symbol but the following are used:
- square yards, square yard, square yds, square yd
- sq yards, sq yard, sq yds, sq yd, sq.yd.
- yards/-2, yard/-2, yds/-2, yd/-2
- yards^2, yard^2, yds^2, yd^2
- yards², yard², yds², yd²
Conversions
One square yard is equivalent to:
- 1,296 square inches
- 9 square feet
- ≈0.00020661157 acres
- ≈0.000000322830579 square miles
- 836 127.36 square millimetres
- 8 361.2736 square centimetres
- 0.83612736 square metres
- 0.000083612736 hectares
- 0.00000083612736 square kilometres
- 1.00969 gaj[1]
See also
- 1 E-1 m² for a comparison with other areas
- Area (geometry)
- Conversion of units
- Cubic yard
- Metrication in Canada
- Orders of magnitude (area)
- Square (algebra), Square root
References
Source
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