hectare

Metric land unit

A hectare is a metric unit of area equal to 10,000 square meters or about 2.47 acres.

It's the standard unit for measuring land in most of the world outside the United States: a 500-hectare farm, The fire burned through 12,000 hectares of forest.

Abbreviated ha.

agriculture

farmland

Agricultural terrain

harvest · irrigation · tillage · sowing · plowing · rotation · agronomy · fertilizer · organic farming · produce

measurement

acre

Land area measurement

survey · cadastre · geodesy · cartography · mapping · calculate · quantify · dimension · scale · size

landuse

parcel

Wrapped item for shipping

property · allotment · zoning · subdivision · development · terrain · ground · homestead · lot · site

scale

vast

Extremely great in size

large-scale · sweeping · broad · immense · enormous · ample · sizable · substantial · boundless · wide

Categories
Opposites
measurement system

hectareacre

Land area measurement

square foot · square yard · square mile · rood · perch

scale of area

hectaresquare millimeter

Metric area unit, tiny

square centimeter · square meter · square kilometer · are

Family

hectares

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G