Orders of magnitude (area)

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Image comparing various units: square mile (the entire yellow square), square kilometre, hectare and acre, as well as a soccer field and a Manhattan block.
An area of one square kilometre consists of 100 hectares each containing 10,000 square metres. 1 km2.svg
An area of one square kilometre consists of 100 hectares each containing 10,000 square metres.

This page is a progressive and labelled list of the SI area orders of magnitude, with certain examples appended to some list objects.

Contents

10−70 to 10−9 square metres

List of orders of magnitude for area 10−70 to 10−9 square metres
Factor (m2)MultipleValueItem
10−70 2.6×10−70 m2 Planck area, [1]
10−601 square quectometre
10−541 square rontometre
10−52 100 rm21 shed [2]
10−481 square yoctometre (ym2) 1 ym2 
10−43 100,000 ym21 femtobarn [3]
10−421 square zeptometre (zm2) 1 zm2 
10−361 square attometre (am2) 1 am2 
10−301 square femtometre (fm2) 1 fm2 
10−29 66.52 fm2 Thomson cross-section of the electron [4]
10−28 100 fm21 barn, roughly the cross-sectional area of a uranium nucleus [5]
10−241 square picometre (pm2) 1 pm2 
10−201 square angstrom2) 10,000 pm2 
10−19100,000 pm2Area of a lipid bilayer, per molecule [6]
75,000–260,000 pm2Surface area of the 20 standard amino acids [7]
10−181 square nanometre (nm2) 1 nm2 
10−16100 nm2 Globular proteins: solvent-accessible surface area of a typical globular protein, having a typical molecular mass of ~35000 u (quite variable) [8]
10−1417,000 nm2Cross-sectional area of a nuclear pore complex in vertebrates [9]
10−121 square micrometre (μm2)6 μm2Surface area of an E. coli bacterium [10]
10−10 100 μm2Surface area of a red blood cell [11]
10−9 6,000–110,000 μm2Range of common LCD screen pixel sizes [12]
 7,000 μm2Area of a dot printed using 300 dots per inch resolution [13]
 8,000 μm2Cross-sectional area of a straight human hair that is 100 μm [14] in diameter [15]

10−8 to 10−1 square metres

List of orders of magnitude for areas 10−8 to 10−1 square metres
Factor (m2)MultipleValueItem
10−8 55,000 μm2Size of a pixel on a typical modern computer display
10−7 2-400,000 μm2Cross-sectional area of a mechanical pencil lead (0.5-0.7 mm in diameter) [16]
10−61 square millimetre (mm2)1–2 mm2Area of a human fovea [17]
2 mm2Area of the head of a pin
10−5 30–50 mm2Area of a 6–8 mm hole punched in a piece of paper by a hole punch [18]
10−41 square centimetre (cm2)290 mm2Area of one side of a U.S. penny [19] [20]
500 mm2Area of a typical postage stamp
10−3 1,100 mm2Area of a human retina [21]
4,600 mm2Area of the face of a credit card [22]
10−21 square decimetre (dm2)10,000 mm2Index card (3 × 5 inches) [23]
60,000 mm2American letter paper (11 × 8.5 inches, "A" size)
62,370 mm2International A4 paper (210 × 297 mm)
92,903 mm21 square foot [24]
10−1 125,000 mm2International A3 paper (297 × 420 mm)
180,000 mm2Surface area of a basketball (diameter 24 cm) [25] [26]
250,000 mm2International A2 paper (420 × 594 mm)
500,000 mm2International A1 paper (594 × 841 mm)

100 to 107 square metres

List of orders of magnitude for areas 100 to 107 square metres.
Factor (m2)MultipleValueItem
1001 square metre 1 m2International A0 paper (841 × 1189 mm)
1.73 m2A number commonly used as the average body surface area of a human [27]
1–4 m2Area of the top of an office desk
101 10–20 m2A parking space
70 m2Approximate surface area of a human lung [28]
1021 square decametre (dam2)100 m2One are (a)
162 m2Size of a volleyball court (18 × 9 metres) [29]
202 m2Floor area of a median suburban three-bedroom house in the US in 2010: 2,169 sq ft (201.5 m2) [30]
261 m2Size of a tennis court [31]
437 m2Size of an NBA/WNBA/NCAA basketball court [32]
845 m2Wing area of Airbus A380, the largest commercial airliner [33]
978 m2Size of the primary mirror of the Extremely Large Telescope, the largest optical telescope in the world (under construction) [34]
1031 kilo square meter k(m2)1,000 m2Surface area of a modern stremma or dunam
1,250 m2Surface area of the water in an Olympic-size swimming pool [35]
4,047 m21 acre [36]
5,400 m2Size of an American football field [37] [38]
7,140 m2Size of a typical football (soccer) field [39] [40]
1041 square hectometre (hm2)10,000 m21 hectare (ha) [41]
17,000 m2Approximate area of a cricket field (theoretical limits: 6,402 m2 to 21,273 m2) [42]
22,100 m2Area of a Manhattan city block
53,000 m2Base of the Great Pyramid of Giza [43] [44]
105 195,000 m2 Irish National Botanic Gardens [45]
490,000 m2 Vatican City [46]
600,000 m2Total floor area of the Pentagon [47]
659,611 m2Total floor area of Surat Diamond Bourse (largest office building) [48]
887,800 m2 AvtoVAZ main assembly building, Tolyatti, Russia (largest building by footprint)
1061 mega square meter M(m2)

1 square kilometre (km2)

1.76 km2 New Century Global Center, Chengdu, China (largest building by total floor area)
2 km2 Monaco (country ranked 192nd by area) [49]
2.59 km21 square mile [50]
2.9 km2 City of London (not all of modern London) [51]
107 59.5 km2 Manhattan Island (land area) [52]
61 km2 San Marino [53]

108 to 1014 square metres

Factor (m2)MultipleValueItem
108 105 km2 Paris (inner city only) [54]
110 km2 Walt Disney World [55]
272 km2 Taipei City [56]
630 km2 Toronto [57]
1091 giga square meter G(m2)1,100 km2 Hong Kong [58]
1,290 km2 Los Angeles, California, United States (city) [59]
1,962 km2 Jacksonville, Florida; largest city in the Continental US [60]
2,188 km2 Tokyo [61]
3,130 km2Average area of an American county
5,780 km2Administrative area of Bali [62]
8,030 km2 Community of Madrid, Spain
1010 11,000 km2 Jamaica [63]
30,528 km2Belgium
68,870 km2 Lake Victoria [64]
84,000 km2Austria [65]
1011 100,000 km2 South Korea [66]
167,996 km2 Jiuquan in China
232,000 km2Total area covered by underwater search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (including both 2014-2017 and 2018 searches)
238,397 km2 Romania [67]
301,338 km2 Italy [68]
357,000 km2Germany [69]
377,900 km2Japan [70]
510,000 km2Spain [71]
780,000 km2 Turkey [72]
10121 tera square meter T(m2)

1 square megametre (Mm2)

1.0 Mm2 Egypt (country ranked 29th by area) [73]
2 Mm2 Mexico
3.10 Mm2 Sakha (Yakutia) Republic in Russia (largest subnational governing body) [74]
3.28 Mm2 India (country ranked 7th by area)
5 Mm2Largest extent of the Roman Empire [75] [76]
7.74 Mm2Australia (country ranked 6th by area) [77]
8.5 Mm2Brazil
9.5 Mm2China/ United States of America
1013 10 Mm2Canada (including water) [78]
14 Mm2 Antarctica [79]
14 Mm2 Arable land worldwide [80]
16.6 Mm2Surface area of Pluto [81]
17 Mm2Russia (country ranked 1st by area) [82]
24 Mm2Largest extent of Mongol Empire
30 Mm2 Africa [83]
35.5 Mm2Largest extent of the British Empire [84]
38 Mm2Surface area of the Moon [85]
44.6 Mm2 Asia (largest continent by area)
70.5 Mm2 Indian Ocean [86]
85.1 Mm2 Atlantic Ocean [87]
1014 144 Mm2Surface area of Mars [88]
150 Mm2Land area of Earth [89]
168.7 Mm2 Pacific Ocean [90]
360 Mm2Water area of Earth [89]
510 Mm2Total surface area of Earth [89]

1015 to 1026 square metres

List of orders of magnitude for areas 1015 to 1026 square metres.
Factor (m2)MultipleValueItem
10151 peta square meter P(m2)1,000 Mm2Surface area of the white dwarf, Van Maanen's star
7,600 Mm2Surface area of Neptune [91]
1016 43,000 Mm2Surface area of Saturn [92]
61 000 Mm2Surface area of Jupiter, [93] the "surface" area of the spheroid (calculated from the mean radius as reported by NASA). The cross-sectional area of Jupiter, which is the same as the "circle" of Jupiter seen by an approaching spacecraft, is almost exactly one quarter the surface-area of the overall sphere, which in the case of Jupiter is approximately 1.535×1016 m2.
1017 2-600 000 Mm2Surface area of the brown dwarf CT Chamaeleontis B.
460,000 Mm2Area swept by the Moon's orbit of Earth
10181 square gigametre (Gm2)6.1 Gm2Surface area of the Sun [94]
1019 30 Gm2Surface area of the star Vega
1020  100 Gm2 
10211 zetta square meter Z(m2)1 000 Gm2
1022 11 000 Gm2Area swept by Mercury's orbit around the Sun
37 000 Gm2Area swept by Venus' orbit around the Sun
71 000 Gm2Area swept by Earth's orbit around the Sun
1023 160 000 Gm2Area swept by Mars' orbit around the Sun
281 000 Gm2Surface area of a Dyson sphere with a radius of 1 AU
10241 yotta square meter (m2)

1 square terametre (Tm2)

1.9 Tm2Area swept by Jupiter's orbit around the Sun
6.4 Tm2Area swept by Saturn's orbit around the Sun
8.5 Tm2Surface area of the red supergiant star Betelgeuse
1025 24 Tm2Surface area of the hypergiant star VY Canis Majoris
26 Tm2Area swept by Uranus' orbit around the Sun
64 Tm2Area swept by Neptune's orbit around the Sun
1026 110 Tm2Area swept by Pluto's orbit around the Sun

1027 square metres and larger

List of orders of magnitude for areas 1027 square metres and larger.
Factor (m2)MultipleValueItem
10301 square petametre (Pm2)
103110 Pm2
1032200 Pm2Roughly the surface area of the Oort Cloud
300 Pm2Roughly the surface area of a Bok globule
10331 000 Pm2
103430 000 Pm2Roughly the surface area of The Bubble nebula
1035100 000 Pm2
10361 square exametre (Em2)
...
1041700 000 Em2Roughly the area of Milky Way's galactic disk
10421 square zettametre (Zm2)
...
10481 square yottametre (Ym2)
10541 square ronnametre (Rm2)2.4 Rm2Surface area of the observable universe [95]

See also

References

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