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Hectare

nounPronunciation: /ˈhɛk.tɑːr/

In Portuguese: Hectare

Climate & Sustainability

What does “Hectare” mean?

A metric unit of surface area equal to ten thousand square meters or roughly 2.471 acres.

Etymology

Borrowed from French hectare, a term of the metric system made of hect-, from Greek hekaton, "hundred", and are, the metric unit of area equal to one hundred square metres. A hectare is therefore one hundred ares, or ten thousand square metres. It is the usual unit for farmland and forest in countries that use the metric system.

Usage note

The symbol is ha. One hectare is about 2.47 acres, the unit still used for land in the United States and often in Britain.

Often confused with

acre: An acre is a smaller, non-metric unit: one hectare is about two and a half acres.

Word family

are
hecto-
hectolitre
hectometre

Usage examples

The bigger the why, the more hectares of seeds you will need to plant.

Concept

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