Area converter
Convert square feet, yards, cents, gunthas and ankanams, with simple explanations.
Comes to
435.6
1 cent = 435.6 sq.ft.
Common conversions
Every unit, explained
- Square feet
- Used for flats and built-up area all over India.
- 1 sq.ft. = 0.111 sq.yd.
- Square yards
- The usual unit for plots. One square yard is nine square feet.
- 1 sq.yd. = 9 sq.ft.
- Square metres
- The metric unit. Used on approvals and RERA papers.
- 1 sq.m. = 10.764 sq.ft.
- Cents
- One hundredth of an acre. Small plots in Andhra are still sold in cents.
- 1 cent = 435.6 sq.ft.
- Guntha
- One fortieth of an acre. Common in old Andhra and Karnataka land records.
- 1 guntha = 1,089 sq.ft.
- Ankanam
- Eight square yards. Seen in family land papers in Andhra.
- 1 ankanam = 72 sq.ft.
- Ground
- 2,400 square feet. Used in Chennai and Tamil Nadu.
- 1 ground = 2,400 sq.ft.
- Acres
- The usual unit for farmland and large land.
- 1 acre = 43,560 sq.ft.
- Hectares
- Metric unit for farmland. About two and a half acres.
- 1 hectare = 1,07,639 sq.ft.
- Kanal
- Used in North India. Twenty marlas. Rare in the south.
- 1 kanal = 5,445 sq.ft.
- Marla
- Used in North India. 272.25 square feet.
- 1 marla = 272.25 sq.ft.
- Bigha
- Used in North India. Its size is different in each state. Here we use the common 27,000 sq.ft.
- 1 bigha = 27,000 sq.ft.