Convert Square kilometres to Square meters
1 square kilometre is 1,000,000 m². One square kilometre is exactly 1000000 square meters.
One square kilometre is 1000000 square meters. To convert square kilometres to square meters, multiply by 1000000; to go the other way, divide by 1000000 or multiply by 1.0000 × 10^-6. The factor is exact rather than rounded: it follows from NIST Office of Weights and Measures. A million square metres, or 100 hectares.
Factor checked against the defining standard · How we check
- Square kilometres × 1000000
1 * 10000001,000,000 m²
1 square kilometre in every area unit
| Unit | Value | Exact factor |
|---|---|---|
| square inches | 1,550,003,100 sq in | × 1,550,003,100.01 |
| square feet | 10,763,910.42 sq ft | × 10,763,910.4167 |
| square yards | 1,195,990.046 sq yd | × 1,195,990.0463 |
| acres | 247.1053815 ac | × 247.105381467 |
| square meters | 1,000,000 m² | × 1,000,000 |
| square millimetres | 1,000,000,000,000 mm² | × 1,000,000,000,000 |
| square centimetres | 10,000,000,000 cm² | × 10,000,000,000 |
| square kilometres (as entered) | 1 km² | — |
| square miles | 0.3861021585 mi² | × 0.386102158542 |
| hectares | 100 ha | × 100 |
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: square kilometres 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 sqkm to sqm is how the symbols are typed on a keyboard with no superscript on it.
How do you convert square kilometres to square meters? The converter and the working
- 1.Take the measurement in square kilometres.
- 2.Multiply by 1000000 — that is how many square meters fit in one square kilometre.
- 3.To go back the other way, divide by 1000000, or multiply by 1.0000 × 10^-6.
Worked example: 25 square kilometres to square meters
- Formula
- km² × 1000000 = m²
- Arithmetic
- 25 × 1000000 = 25,000,000 m²
- Answer
- 25 km² = 25,000,000 m²
The factor is exact, so this figure is exact too — only the display is rounded.
Square kilometres to square meters conversion table
| Square kilometres | Square meters |
|---|---|
| 1 km² | 1,000,000 m² |
| 2 km² | 2,000,000 m² |
| 3 km² | 3,000,000 m² |
| 4 km² | 4,000,000 m² |
| 5 km² | 5,000,000 m² |
| 6 km² | 6,000,000 m² |
| 7 km² | 7,000,000 m² |
| 8 km² | 8,000,000 m² |
| 9 km² | 9,000,000 m² |
| 10 km² | 10,000,000 m² |
| 12 km² | 12,000,000 m² |
| 15 km² | 15,000,000 m² |
| 20 km² | 20,000,000 m² |
| 25 km² | 25,000,000 m² |
| 50 km² | 50,000,000 m² |
| 100 km² | 100,000,000 m² |
| 200 km² | 200,000,000 m² |
| 300 km² | 300,000,000 m² |
| 500 km² | 500,000,000 m² |
| 1000 km² | 1,000,000,000 m² |
| 2000 km² | 2,000,000,000 m² |
| 5000 km² | 5,000,000,000 m² |
| 10000 km² | 10,000,000,000 m² |
What is a square kilometre?
A million square metres, or 100 hectares. The unit land area and population density are published in everywhere except the US.
What is a square meter?
A meter on a side, and about 10.764 square feet.
How many square meters are in a square kilometre?
One square kilometre is 1000000 square meters, exactly. Going the other way, one square meter is 1.0000 × 10^-6 square kilometres. 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 square kilometre.
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Questions people actually ask
- How many square meters are in a square kilometre?
- 1000000. A meter on a side, and about 10.764 square feet.
- How do I convert square meters back to square kilometres?
- Divide by 1000000, or multiply by 1.0000 × 10^-6 — they are the same operation.
Other area conversions
Square meters to square kilometres — the same conversion the other way.