Square yard

This article is about the unit of measurement. For the technology company, see Square Yards (company).

square yard
Unit system	Imperial, United States customary units
Unit of	area
Symbol	yd2, sq yd
Conversions
1 yd2in ...	... is equal to ...
Imperial/US	1296 sq in 9 sq ft
SI units	8361.2736 cm2 0.8361 m2

Comparison of 1 square yard with some Imperial and metric units of area

The square yard (Northern India: gaj , Pakistan: gaz) is an imperial unit and U.S. customary unit of area. It is in widespread use in most of the English-speaking world, particularly the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Pakistan and India. It is defined as the area of a square with sides of one yard (three feet, thirty-six inches, 0.9144 metres) in length.

Symbols

There is no universally agreed symbol but the following are used:

• square yards, square yard, square yds, square yd
• sq yards, sq yard, sq yds, sq yd, sq.yd.
• yards/-2, yard/-2, yds/-2, yd/-2
• yards^2, yard^2, yds^2, yd^2
• yards², yard², yds², yd²

Conversions

One square yard is equivalent to:

• 1,296 square inches
• 9 square feet
• ≈0.00020661157 acres
• ≈0.000000322830579 square miles
• 836 127.36 square millimetres
• 8 361.2736 square centimetres
• 0.83612736 square metres
• 0.000083612736 hectares
• 0.00000083612736 square kilometres
• 1.00969 gaj ^[1]

See also

• 1 E-1 m² for a comparison with other areas
• Area (geometry)
• Conversion of units
• Cubic yard
• Metrication in Canada
• Orders of magnitude (area)
• Square (algebra), Square root

References

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