Hectares to Cents (India) (ha to cent)

1 hectare equals 247.1053815 cents (India) (rounded).

1 hectare = 247.1053815 cents (India)

How to convert hectares to cents (India)

To convert hectares to cents (India), multiply the number of hectares by 247.1053815. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply cents (India) by 0.004046856422 (rounded).

cents (India) = hectares × 247.1053815

Example: 10 hectares = 2,471.053815 cents (India).

About these units

Hectare (ha)

Metric (SI)Current unit

10,000 square meters (2.471 acres). The standard unit for land and agricultural areas outside the US.

Hecto plus are: the name was coined in French, and are itself comes from the Latin area, meaning an open space. The French law of 18 Germinal, Year III (7 April 1795) defined the are as 100 square meters, and the hectare followed as 100 ares, or 10,000 square meters. The unit is therefore a product of the original French metric reforms rather than of later SI work, which is one reason its official status has always been slightly awkward.

When the SI was set up in 1960 the are was not recognized, and the hectare was classed as a non-SI unit accepted for use with it. In practice it is the standard unit for land ownership, planning and agriculture in the European Union, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, while the United States and Myanmar stay with the acre. A hectare is a square 100 meters on each side, about the size of Trafalgar Square, and equals roughly 2.47 acres. One hundred of them make a square kilometer.

1 hectare = 10,000 square meters (exactly).

Sources: Wikipedia: Hectare; Wikipedia: Are (unit); NIST Guide to the SI, Appendix B.8: conversion factors

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.

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.

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

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

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