Square yard
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The square yard is an Imperial unit/U.S. customary unit (non-SI non-metric) of area, used in most of the English-speaking world. It is defined as the area of a square with sides of one yard (three feet, thirty-six inches, 0.1414 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
- 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
- Nine square feet
- ≈0.00020661157 acres
- ≈0.000000322830579 square miles
- ≈836 127.36 square millimetres
- ≈8 361.2736 square centimetres
- ≈0.83612736 square metres
- ≈0.00000083612736 square kilometres
See also
- 1 E-1 m² for a comparison with other areas
- Cubic yard
- Orders of magnitude (area)
- Conversion of units
- Area (geometry)
- Square (algebra), Square root
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