Marlas to Square Feet (marla to ft²)

1 marla equals 272.25 square feet exactly.

1 marla = 272.25 square feet

How to convert marlas to square feet

To convert marlas to square feet, multiply the number of marlas by 272.25. This factor is exact. To go the other way, multiply square feet by 0.003673094582 (rounded).

square feet = marlas × 272.25

Example: 10 marlas = 2,722.5 square feet.

About these units

Marla (marla)

Indian subcontinentTraditional unit (still used in some regions)

272.25 square feet (25.29 m²), a square rod (the 'big marla' in India). Used for house plots in Pakistan and north India, where sizes vary by region.

Houses in Pakistani cities such as Lahore and Islamabad are still sold as 5 marla, 10 marla or 1 kanal plots. The marla was fixed under the British Raj as one square rod, a square of 16.5 feet on a side, giving 272.25 square feet, 30.25 square yards or 25.292853 square metres. 160 marla make an acre, and 20 make a kanal.

The size depends on the country. Wikipedia says India standardized the marla at 25 square yards (about 225 square feet, or 20.9 square metres), and that in India the older, larger Pakistani-style unit is often called the big marla. Bangladesh follows the Indian definition. The same article also gives 272.25 square feet in its Indian section, so its own figures disagree, and the page is tagged as needing more citations.

In Punjab the marla is subdivided into 9 sarsahi, each a square of 5.5 feet, or 30.25 square feet. The figure used here is the 272.25 square foot Raj-era marla. Within India the unit is losing ground to the guz, square metres, acres and hectares.

1 marla = 25.29285264 square meters (exactly).

Sources: Wikipedia: Marla (unit)

Square Foot (ft²)

US & ImperialCurrent unit

Exactly 0.09290304 m². The standard unit for floor areas and real estate in the US, UK and India.

Feet came first, and they were not all the same length. As a body-based unit, the foot ranged historically between about 250 and 335 millimeters, with ancient Greek and Roman feet near 300 mm. In medieval England a statute foot was set at 10/11 of an older Belgic foot, and Charlemagne's attempt around 790 to standardize units largely failed. The square foot is simply that length squared, so its size changed along with the foot.

The 1959 international agreement fixed the foot at exactly 0.3048 meter, so one square foot is exactly 0.09290304 m², or 144 square inches. The United Kingdom adopted the new foot in 1964. Today the square foot is the usual way of listing property in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, India, Pakistan, Singapore and Hong Kong, although the measuring convention varies: agents may measure corner to corner, subtract unheated space, or add heated space that extends beyond the end-to-end measurement. The world's smallest park has been reported at 2.6 sq ft.

1 square foot = 0.09290304 square meters (exactly).

Sources: Wikipedia: Square foot; Wikipedia: Foot (unit); NIST Guide to the SI, Appendix B.8: conversion factors

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