Ngan (Thai) to Acres (ngan to ac)

1 ngan (Thai) equals 0.09884215259 acres (rounded).

1 ngan (Thai) = 0.09884215259 acres

How to convert ngan (Thai) to acres

To convert ngan (Thai) to acres, multiply the number of ngan (Thai) by 0.09884215259. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply acres by 10.11714106 (rounded).

acres = ngan (Thai) × 0.09884215259

Example: 10 ngan (Thai) = 0.9884215259 acres.

About these units

Ngan (Thai) (ngan)

ThaiTraditional unit (still used in some regions)

A quarter of a rai: exactly 400 m². Used for house plots in Thailand.

Ngan means work in Thai, and as a land unit it is the middle step between the rai and the square wa. Four ngan make one rai, and one ngan holds 100 square wa, so it covers 400 square meters, the area of a square 20 meters on a side.

That size suits a village or suburban house plot, which is why ngan crop up in listings for building land, while farms are quoted in rai. Deeds combine the units, so a title might read as a number of rai, then ngan, then square wa.

The ngan comes from the same traditional Thai scheme as the wa and sen, fixed against metric lengths after the cadastral survey of 1896. Its 400 square meters are exact in the modern definition, and it is about one tenth of an acre.

1 ngan (Thai) = 400 square meters (exactly).

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

Acre (ac)

US & ImperialCurrent unit

43,560 square feet or exactly 4,046.8564224 m², about 40% of a hectare. Originally the area a yoke of oxen could plow in a day.

Ploughland gave the acre its name: it traces to Old Norse akr, meaning cultivated land, and is related to German Acker and Latin ager. In medieval England it was a farming measure, the land one man with a team of eight oxen could plough in a day. The traditional strip was 40 perches long and 4 perches wide, which is 660 by 66 feet, or ten square chains. The shape was never the point, and the article on the unit stresses that any area of 43,560 square feet is an acre.

An acre is 43,560 square feet, 4,840 square yards or 1/640 of a square mile, close to 0.4 hectare. For Americans, it is roughly 88 by 55 yards, about 90 percent of a football field without the end zones. The Weights and Measures Act 1878 fixed it at 4,840 square yards in Britain, where trade use ended in 1995. The 1959 international acre is exactly 4,046.8564224 m²; the US survey acre, about 4,046.872 m², differed slightly, and US survey units were retired after 2022.

1 acre = 4,046.856422 square meters (approximately).

Sources: Wikipedia: Acre; NIST Guide to the SI, Appendix B.8: conversion factors

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