Kvadrademeter

Kvadrademeter, commonly written as kvadratmeter in Danish and Norwegian, is the SI unit of area. It denotes the area of a square with sides of one meter each and is abbreviated as m². The metre is the base unit of length in the International System of Units, so the square metre is a derived unit representing area, equal to the product of length and width.

One kvadrademeter equals 100 square decimeters (dm²), 10,000 square centimeters (cm²), and 1,000,000 square millimeters (mm²). In other common terms, 1 m² is about 10.764 square feet (ft²). The unit is used worldwide to express the size of rooms, buildings, plots of land, and other areas, including housing floor space, construction materials, and land measurements. Larger areas are often conveyed in multiple square metres or in combinations with hectares (1 hectare = 10,000 m²).

Practical examples include describing an apartment’s living space, where a 50 m² unit is relatively common, or detailing a field of 2,000 m². In engineering and architecture, precise square metre measurements are essential for budgeting, design, and compliance with standards. The square metre is an SI-derived unit with the dimension of area (L²) and remains the standard reference for area in most contexts.