Square Kilometers to Cents (India) (km² to cent)

1 square kilometer equals 24,710.53815 cents (India) (rounded).

1 square kilometer = 24,710.53815 cents (India)

How to convert square kilometers to cents (India)

To convert square kilometers to cents (India), multiply the number of square kilometers by 24,710.53815. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply cents (India) by 0.00004046856422 (rounded).

cents (India) = square kilometers × 24,710.53815

Example: 10 square kilometers = 247,105.3815 cents (India).

About these units

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

Cent (India) (cent)

Indian subcontinentTraditional unit (still used in some regions)

435.6 square feet (40.47 m²), one hundredth of an acre. Used for land in southern India, including Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka; Bangladesh and West Bengal call it a decimal.

Real estate advertisements in Kerala and Tamil Nadu often price plots by the cent, a name that here means one hundredth of an acre and has no connection with money. The area works out to 435.6 square feet, 48.4 square yards or about 40.47 square metres, so a typical house plot of five or ten cents is quite small by comparison with an acre.

Because the cent is defined directly from the acre, it carries no local variation in size, unlike many older Indian land units. What varies is where it is used. Wikipedia lists parts of southern India, including Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, where it still appears in property deals and news reports. In West Bengal and Bangladesh the same one-hundredth of an acre is called a decimal.

The cent sits beside other decimal-style subdivisions of the acre. Elsewhere in India land is counted in gunthas (40 to an acre), and in Pakistan and the north in marlas and kanals (160 and 8 to an acre). A cent is a little under half the size of a guntha, which is about 101 square metres.

1 cent (India) = 40.46856422 square meters (approximately).

Sources: Wikipedia: Cent (area); Wikipedia: Guntha

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