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The entire yellow square is one square mile; the dark blue area at right represents 100 acres. The acre ( / ˈeɪkər / AY-kər) is a unit of land area used in the British imperial and the United States customary systems. It is traditionally defined as the area of one chain by one furlong (66 by 660 feet ), which is exactly equal to 10 square ...
The acre-foot is a non- SI unit of volume equal to about 1,233 m 3 commonly used in the United States in reference to large-scale water resources, such as reservoirs, aqueducts, canals, sewer flow capacity, irrigation water, [ 1] and river flows . An acre-foot equals approximately an eight-lane swimming pool, 82 ft (25 m) long, 52 ft (16 m ...
In French North America, it was also equal to 25 square perches, but the royal perch of 18 feet was used, yielding a vergée of 8100 square feet (854.7 m 2) In Guernsey, a vergée (Guernésiais: vergie) is 17,640 square feet (1,639 m 2). It is 40 (square) Guernsey perches. A Guernsey perch (also spelt perque) is 21 feet by 21 feet. [1] [2]
Conversions between units in the metric system are defined by their prefixes ... acre (US survey) ac ≡ 10 sq ch = 4840 sq yd, also 43 560 sq ft: ≈ 4 046.873 m 2 ...
~1344 sq yd exactly 5 ⁄ 18 acre, or 12,100 square feet. This unit is also exactly 256 qasba kwadru. Sometimes called a tumolo in English texts. Also called Tumoli with modern real estate agents Cf. dunam. wejba: wejbiet 4 ~4497 m 2 ~1.111 acres exactly 1 + 1 ⁄ 9 acres. modd: mdied 16 ~1.799 ha ~4.444 acres exactly 4 + 4 ⁄ 9 acres
A killa or acre is measured rectangularly, reckoned as an area 36 karams (198 ft) x 40 karams (220 ft) (43,560 square ft). 1 /5th of a killa or acre is known as bigha 1 Karam = 5.5 feet = 1.83; or Gaj; 1 Yard or Gaj = 36 Inch = 0.91 Metre = 3 feet; 1 Sq Yard = 9 Sq Feet; To convert Sq feet to Sq Yard = Divide by 9
The principal unit of land measure is 甲 ( Taiwanese Hokkien: kah, Hakka: kap, Mandarin: jiǎ). The unit is derived from the obsolete Dutch morgen, which was introduced during Taiwan's Dutch era. In the later era Kingdom of Tungning, 犁 ( Taiwanese Hokkien: lê, Hakka: lài, Mandarin: lí) is defined to represent the area that could be farmed ...
In Arkansas and Missouri, the official conversion is 1 arpent = 0.8507 acres (3,443 square metres). [3] In Paris, the square arpent was 220 French feet × 220 French feet = 48,400 French square feet, about 5,107 square metres or 1.262 acres. In Mauritius and Seychelles, an arpent is about 4220.87 square metres, 0.4221 hectares, 1.043 acres. [4]