hectare
metric unit of area
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Summary
hectare is an unit of area[1]. hectare ranks in the top 5% of unit of area entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (13,144 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Instance of: SI-accepted non-SI unit[3], non-SI unit mentioned in and accepted with the SI[4]
- Measured physical quantity: area[5]
- Commons category: Hectare[6]
- Unicode character: ㏊[7]
- Described by source: Encyclopedic Lexicon[8], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[9], Otto's encyclopedia[10], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[11], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[13]
- Different from: square hectometre[14]
- Conversion to SI unit: 10,000 m²[15]
- Conversion to standard unit: 2.471054 acres[16], 107639.1 square foot[17], 0.01 km²[18], 0.003861022 square mile[19], 11959.9 square yard[20], 15,500,031 square inch[21], 2197 square sazhen[22], 1 square hectometre[23], 0.915298 dessiatin[24], 100 are[25], 1 bunder[26]
- Exact match: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Hectare[27]
- Wikidata SPARQL query equivalent: wd:Q35852 p:P2370/psn:P2370 [wikibase:quantityAmount ?source; wikibase:quantityUnit ?base]. ?item p:P2370/psn:P2370 [wikibase:quantityAmount ?target; wikibase:quantityUnit ?base]. BIND(?source / ?target as ?value)[28]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[29]
- Unit symbol: ha[30], га[31], ха[32], هک[33]
Why It Matters
hectare has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[34] hectare is known by 71 alternative names across languages and contexts.[35]