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📐 Land units

Indian land units, in plain numbers.

1 acre = 8 kanal = 40 guntha = 100 cents = 43,560 sq ft. Bigha, biswa and katha change from state to state. Pick a conversion below, or use the full land unit converter.

Land unit chart

UnitSq ftAcresUsed in
1 square foot10.000023Everywhere in India, especially for house plots and flats
1 square metre10.76390.000247Sale deeds, registration papers and municipal records
1 square yard (gaj)90.000207Urban plots in Delhi, Punjab, Haryana, UP and Hyderabad
1 acre43,5601Farmland across India
1 hectare1,07,6392.4711Official land records in many states, e.g. the 7/12 extract and UP khatauni
1 kanal5,4450.125Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu & Kashmir
1 marla272.250.00625Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu & Kashmir
1 killa43,5601Consolidated villages in Punjab and Haryana
1 murabba10,89,00025Consolidated villages in Punjab and Haryana
1 guntha1,0890.025Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka and Telangana
1 cent435.60.01Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka
1 decimal435.60.01West Bengal, Odisha, Bihar and Jharkhand
1 ground2,4000.0551Tamil Nadu, especially Chennai
1 ankanam720.001653Andhra Pradesh and Telangana
1 are1,0760.0247Kerala land records, Maharashtra’s 7/12 and Goa’s Form I & XIV
1 bigha (Punjab)9,0700.2082Common value; varies by district
1 bigha (Haryana)27,2250.625Common value; varies by district
1 bigha (Himachal Pradesh)8,7120.2Common value; varies by district
1 bigha (Uttarakhand)6,8040.1562Common value; varies by district
1 bigha (Uttar Pradesh)27,0000.6198Common value; varies by district
1 bigha (Bihar)27,2200.6249Common value; varies by district
1 bigha (West Bengal)14,4000.3306Common value; varies by district
1 bigha (Assam)14,4000.3306Common value; varies by district
1 bigha (Rajasthan)27,2250.625Common value; varies by district
1 bigha (Gujarat)17,4240.4Common value; varies by district
1 bigha (Madhya Pradesh)12,0000.2755Common value; varies by district

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