square metre
SI unit of area
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Summary
square metre is an unit of area[1]. It ranks in the top 7% of unit of area entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,140 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Instance of: coherent SI unit[3]
- Measured physical quantity: area[4], atomic attenuation coefficient[5], nuclear quadrupole moment[6], direction distribution of cross section[7]
- Commons category: Square metre[8]
- Said to be the same as: m²[9]
- Unicode character: ㎡[10]
- Described by source: ISO 80000-3:2006 Quantities and units — Part 3: Space and time[11], Otto's encyclopedia[12]
- Conversion to SI unit: 1 m²[13]
- Conversion to standard unit: 0.0001 ha[14], 0.0002471054 acres[15], 10.76391 square foot[16], 0.000001 km²[17], 0.0000003861022 square mile[18], 10,000 square centimetre[19], 1,000,000 square millimetre[20], 1.195990 square yard[21], 1550 square inch[22], 1,550,031,000,000,000 square microinch[23]
- Permanent duplicated item: Q25930092[24]
- Wikidata SPARQL query equivalent: wd:Q25343 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)[25]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[26]
- Unit symbol: m²[27], מ"ר[28], м²[29], م²[30], ച.മീ[31]
- Derived from base unit: metre[32]
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Influence
Things named for square metre include candela per it[33], an unit of luminance[34].
Why It Matters
square metre has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[35] It is known by 114 alternative names across languages and contexts.[36]
Entities named for it include candela per it[33], an unit of luminance[34].