Mu (Chinese) to Hectares (mu to ha)
1 mu (Chinese) equals 0.06666666667 hectares (rounded).
How to convert mu (Chinese) to hectares
To convert mu (Chinese) to hectares, multiply the number of mu (Chinese) by 0.06666666667. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply hectares by 15.
hectares = mu (Chinese) × 0.06666666667
Example: 10 mu (Chinese) = 0.6666666667 hectares.
About these units
Mu (Chinese) (mu)
Exactly 10,000/15 m² (666.67 m²), one fifteenth of a hectare. The standard unit of farmland in China.
A mu was once a plot defined by a square count of bu, the double pace used as a surveying step. Han-era writers recalled that in earlier times 100 square bu made a mu, while in their own day 240 were needed, and calculations from Han rulers give a mu of roughly 461 m². The size kept shifting. The 1915 Beiyang government law defined it as 60 square zhang, about 614.4 m².
The Republic's 1930 market system settled on 1/15 of a hectare, which is the 666.67 m² used here, and the mu is the only traditional Chinese area unit that survived the 1959 State Council decree. Farmland statistics in China are still given in mu, so that 15 mu make one hectare and 1,500 mu a square kilometre. Hong Kong and Macau use a mou of about 761.4 m², while Taiwan and Japan use a unit of about 99.17 m². The idiom of one mu and three fen of land describes a person's small personal patch.
1 mu (Chinese) = 666.6666667 square meters (approximately).
Sources: Wikipedia: Mu (unit); Wikipedia: Chinese units of measurement
Hectare (ha)
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
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