Hectares to Square Wa (Thai) (ha to sq wa)

1 hectare equals 2,500 square wa (Thai) exactly.

1 hectare = 2,500 square wa (Thai)

How to convert hectares to square wa (Thai)

To convert hectares to square wa (Thai), multiply the number of hectares by 2,500. This factor is exact. To go the other way, multiply square wa (Thai) by 0.0004.

square wa (Thai) = hectares × 2,500

Example: 10 hectares = 25,000 square wa (Thai).

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

Square Wa (Thai) (sq wa)

ThaiTraditional unit (still used in some regions)

A square 2 meters on a side: exactly 4 m². Thai property prices are often quoted per square wa.

Tarang wa, the Thai name behind the English square wa, literally refers to a grid of wa. It is the smallest standard Thai land unit, the area of a square with sides of one wa, so with a wa of 2 meters it equals 4 square meters.

One hundred square wa form a ngan and 400 form a rai. Because it is so small, it is the unit in which urban plots and condominium-adjacent land are usually priced, and listings often quote a price per square wa.

Its value is the square of the wa, so any change to the wa would flow straight through, but the metric definition has been fixed since the cadastral survey of the Royal Thai Survey Department began in 1896. A typical townhouse lot of 20 square wa is therefore 80 square meters.

1 square wa (Thai) = 4 square meters (exactly).

Sources: Wikipedia: Rai (unit); Wikipedia: Thai units of measurement

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