Convert Hectares to Square meters
1 hectare is 10,000 m². One hectare is exactly 10000 square meters.
One hectare is 10000 square meters. To convert hectares to square meters, multiply by 10000; to go the other way, divide by 10000 or multiply by 1.0000 × 10^-4. The factor is exact rather than rounded: it follows from NIST Office of Weights and Measures. 10,000 square meters, or about 2.471 acres.
Factor checked against the defining standard · How we check
- Hectares × 10000
1 * 1000010,000 m²
1 hectare in every area unit
| Unit | Value | Exact factor |
|---|---|---|
| square inches | 15,500,031 sq in | × 15,500,031.0001 |
| square feet | 107,639.1042 sq ft | × 107,639.104167 |
| square yards | 11,959.90046 sq yd | × 11,959.900463 |
| acres | 2.471053815 ac | × 2.47105381467 |
| square meters | 10,000 m² | × 10,000 |
| square millimetres | 10,000,000,000 mm² | × 10,000,000,000 |
| square centimetres | 100,000,000 cm² | × 100,000,000 |
| square kilometres | 0.01 km² | × 0.01 |
| square miles | 0.003861021585 mi² | × 0.00386102158542 |
| hectares (as entered) | 1 ha | — |
Factors are entered by hand from NIST Office of Weights and Measures rather than derived from a units library, so the ones that terminate are exact rather than rounded.
The same converter answers this pair however it is written: hectares to square metres is the British spelling of the same units — the metre and the litre are spelled that way outside the United States and the quantity does not change, and ha to sqm is how the symbols are typed on a keyboard with no superscript on it.
How do you convert hectares to square meters? The converter and the working
- 1.Take the measurement in hectares.
- 2.Multiply by 10000 — that is how many square meters fit in one hectare.
- 3.To go back the other way, divide by 10000, or multiply by 1.0000 × 10^-4.
Worked example: 25 hectares to square meters
- Formula
- ha × 10000 = m²
- Arithmetic
- 25 × 10000 = 250,000 m²
- Answer
- 25 ha = 250,000 m²
The factor is exact, so this figure is exact too — only the display is rounded.
Hectares to square meters conversion table
| Hectares | Square meters |
|---|---|
| 1 ha | 10,000 m² |
| 2 ha | 20,000 m² |
| 3 ha | 30,000 m² |
| 4 ha | 40,000 m² |
| 5 ha | 50,000 m² |
| 6 ha | 60,000 m² |
| 7 ha | 70,000 m² |
| 8 ha | 80,000 m² |
| 9 ha | 90,000 m² |
| 10 ha | 100,000 m² |
| 12 ha | 120,000 m² |
| 15 ha | 150,000 m² |
| 20 ha | 200,000 m² |
| 25 ha | 250,000 m² |
| 50 ha | 500,000 m² |
| 100 ha | 1,000,000 m² |
| 200 ha | 2,000,000 m² |
| 300 ha | 3,000,000 m² |
| 500 ha | 5,000,000 m² |
| 1000 ha | 10,000,000 m² |
| 2000 ha | 20,000,000 m² |
| 5000 ha | 50,000,000 m² |
| 10000 ha | 100,000,000 m² |
A hectare is 10,000 square meters, not 100
The prefix belongs to the wrong word. "Hect-" means a hundred, but it multiplies the are — 100 m² — not the square meter, so a hectare is a hundred ares and 10,000 m². The are itself has all but vanished, which is why the name now looks like it is lying. A hectare is a square 100 m on a side, near enough two American football fields including the end zones.
NIST Special Publication 811 — Guide for the Use of the International System of Units
What is a hectare?
10,000 square meters, or about 2.471 acres. The metric unit of land area.
What is a square meter?
A meter on a side, and about 10.764 square feet.
How many square meters are in a hectare?
One hectare is 10000 square meters, exactly. Going the other way, one square meter is 1.0000 × 10^-4 hectares. Both figures come from the same defined relation rather than from a measurement, which is why they are the same today as they were in 1959.
Every area unit here
The whole group — 10 units with their symbols and the size of each one in square meters — is on the conversion index, along with every pair it makes. The table above already gives each of them relative to a hectare.
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Questions people actually ask
- How many square meters are in a hectare?
- 10000. A meter on a side, and about 10.764 square feet.
- How do I convert square meters back to hectares?
- Divide by 10000, or multiply by 1.0000 × 10^-4 — they are the same operation.
The values people look up
Each one is this page with the value filled in, and each answers in its own title.
Other area conversions
Square meters to hectares — the same conversion the other way.