Marlas to Square Kilometers (marla to km²)

1 marla equals 0.00002529285264 square kilometers exactly.

1 marla = 0.00002529285264 square kilometers

How to convert marlas to square kilometers

To convert marlas to square kilometers, multiply the number of marlas by 0.00002529285264. This factor is exact. To go the other way, multiply square kilometers by 39,536.86103 (rounded).

square kilometers = marlas × 0.00002529285264

Example: 10 marlas = 0.0002529285264 square kilometers.

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 Kilometer (km²)

Metric (SI)Current unit

One million square meters (100 hectares). Used for the area of cities, countries and lakes.

Metric land measure took a surprisingly long time to settle on the kilometer. The meter was defined in 1799, yet people initially preferred the myriameter, 10,000 meters, and the French phrase myriamètres par heure was still in print in 1802. The Netherlands adopted the kilometer in 1817 under the name mijl. Once the kilometer was established, the square kilometer followed naturally as the unit for areas too large to count comfortably in hectares or square meters.

One square kilometer is 1,000,000 square meters, or 100 hectares, about 0.3861 square miles or 247.1 acres. A useful picture comes from history: many medieval European cities were enclosed by walls around roughly a square kilometer, with Delft at about 0.9 km² and Lucca at about 1.09 km². A standard 18-hole golf course of 6,000 meters needs about 0.8 km². The symbol km² means the square of a kilometer, not a thousand square meters. The planned Square Kilometre Array radio telescope takes its name from the collecting area it aims for.

1 square kilometer = 1,000,000 square meters (exactly).

Sources: Wikipedia: Square kilometre; Wikipedia: Kilometres per hour

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