hektar

Hektar, abbreviated ha, is a unit of area used to measure land in the metric system. It is commonly used for farms, forests, and other large plots of land. The term hektar is used in Turkish and several other languages; in English, the standard term is hectare. The hectare provides a convenient scale for describing sizable areas that would be awkward in square meters.

One hektar equals 10,000 square meters. It is also defined as 100 ares, since an are is 100 square meters. Therefore, 1 ha = 100 × 1 are = 10,000 m2. This relationship makes the hectare especially practical for land measurement where plots are tens to hundreds of thousands of square meters.

Conversions and usage: 1 ha is equal to 0.01 square kilometers, and 100 hectares equal 1 square kilometer. In acres, 1 hectare is approximately 2.471 acres. The hectare is a non-SI unit of area but is accepted for use with the SI; its symbol is ha. It is widely used in agriculture, forestry, real estate, and land planning, providing a standardized way to express land size across countries.

Context: The hectare remains the standard unit for measuring large areas of land in many parts of the world, offering a practical alternative to square meters for medium- to large-scale land descriptions.