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
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
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