Cent (India) (cent)

Indian subcontinentTraditional unit (still used in some regions)

435.6 square feet (40.47 m²), one hundredth of an acre. Used for land in southern India, including Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka; Bangladesh and West Bengal call it a decimal.

1 cent (India) = 40.46856422 square meters (approximately).

About the cent (India)

Real estate advertisements in Kerala and Tamil Nadu often price plots by the cent, a name that here means one hundredth of an acre and has no connection with money. The area works out to 435.6 square feet, 48.4 square yards or about 40.47 square metres, so a typical house plot of five or ten cents is quite small by comparison with an acre.

Because the cent is defined directly from the acre, it carries no local variation in size, unlike many older Indian land units. What varies is where it is used. Wikipedia lists parts of southern India, including Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, where it still appears in property deals and news reports. In West Bengal and Bangladesh the same one-hundredth of an acre is called a decimal.

The cent sits beside other decimal-style subdivisions of the acre. Elsewhere in India land is counted in gunthas (40 to an acre), and in Pakistan and the north in marlas and kanals (160 and 8 to an acre). A cent is a little under half the size of a guntha, which is about 101 square metres.

Sources: Wikipedia: Cent (area); Wikipedia: Guntha

Cent (India) conversion chart

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