A hectare (symbol ha, pronounced /ˈhɛktɛər/) is a unit of area equal to 10,000 square metres (107,639 sq ft), or one square hectometre (100 metres, squared), and is commonly used for measuring land area.
The hectare is used in most countries around the world, especially in domains concerned with land ownership, land planning, and management, including law (land deeds), agriculture, forestry, and town planning. In similar applications, the United ...
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A hectare (symbol ha, pronounced /ˈhɛktɛər/) is a unit of area equal to 10,000 square metres (107,639 sq ft), or one square hectometre (100 metres, squared), and is commonly used for measuring land area.
The hectare is used in most countries around the world, especially in domains concerned with land ownership, land planning, and management, including law (land deeds), agriculture, forestry, and town planning. In similar applications, the United States, Myanmar, and to some extent Canada instead use the Imperial measurement acre, which equals 0.404686 ha. Some of the former Ottoman countries and Norway use the decare, one tenth of a hectare.
Its base unit, the are, was defined by older forms of the metric system, but is no longer part of the modern metric system. The Comité International des Poids et Mesures classifies the hectare as a unit that is accepted for use with SI.
The hectare has been subsequently defined in a number of nations by a country-specific term. In each of the...
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