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Convert Between Units of Area

This Area conversion tool helps engineers, scientists, and students convert between common and specialty Area units. It's designed for quick checks, documentation cleanup, and day-to-day engineering calculations.

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About Area Conversions

Helpful context and notes for converting Area units.

This Area conversion tool helps engineers, scientists, and students convert between common and specialty Area units. It's designed for quick checks, documentation cleanup, and day-to-day engineering calculations.

Area conversions matter for earthwork, hydraulics, land measurement, coatings, and structural calculations where results may be reported in ft², m², acres, or hectares.

Kinematics values are often reused across calculations (spreadsheets, CAD notes, reports), so unit consistency matters more than it seems. If you're mixing SI and imperial sources, double-check the unit context and rounding—especially when values feed into downstream engineering formulas.

Frequently Asked Questions

Area conversions are exact based on standard unit definitions.

Yes, for reference and preliminary calculations. Final quantities should be verified.

Land measurement, construction, and engineering often use different area units.

Area values are often inputs to volume calculations, making unit consistency critical.

They are commonly used for land area, while engineering often uses square units.

Fun Fact

Africa covers nearly 12 million square miles of land - so big it photobombs all four hemispheres at once.

How many megasquare meters is 12000000 squaremeters?

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Supported Units

Common and engineering-specific units supported for this conversion.

  • acre (Acres)
  • ar (Ares)
  • barn (Barns)
  • cm2 (centisquare meters)
  • dam2 (decasquare meters)
  • dm2 (decisquare meters)
  • Gm2 (gigasquare meters)
  • ha (Hectares)
  • hm2 (hectosquare meters)
  • km2 (kilosquare meters)
  • Mm2 (megasquare meters)
  • μm2 (microsquare meters)
  • mm2 (millisquare meters)
  • morgen (Morgens)
  • nm2 (nanosquare meters)
  • pm2 (picosquare meters)
  • m2 (square meters)
  • Tm2 (terasquare meters)
  • uk_acre (UK Acres)