what is a hectare?

Answer 1

it is 10,000 metres squared or 2.47 acres.

Answer 2

A hectare (ha) is a unit of area equal to 10,000 square meters

1ha = 100 ares = 10,000 m^2

1ha = 2.471 acres
1ha = 107,639 ft^2

The base unit for a hectare is an "are" -- and was part of the metric system a long time ago, but not in today's modern metric system -- therefore, it's not an SI unit.

The unit's name is a combination of the prefix "hecto" (10^2) and the unit "are" -> hecto + are = 100 * are

Answer 3

It's an area of land 100 metres x 100 metres (10,000 square metres). There are approximately 2.5 acres to a hectare. An acre is an area of land 220 x 22 yards, or 4840 square yards. A yard is approximately 0.925 metres.

Answer 4

The customary metric unit of land area, equal to 100 ares. One hectare is a square hectometer, that is, the area of a square 100 meters on each side: exactly 10 000 square meters or approximately 107 639.1 square feet, 11 959.9 square yards, or 2.471 054 acres, approximately...!

Answer 5

1 hectare = 100 ares = 10,000 square metres = (100 metres)².

Thus a hectare is the area of a square plot of land where each side of the square is 100 metres, that is, a square hectometer.

Answer 6

The area = 10000 square metres.
The easiest way to visualise this is to remember that Trafalgar Square was designed to be exactly 1ha and is 100m x 100m.
Do a Google picture search to remind yourself what it looks like.

Answer 7

Its a unit of measurement for the area of land.

It's defined as.....

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Answer 8

Its the metric measurement of an acre.

Answer 9

It's a measure of area, an eighth of an acre.