Square Kilometers to Square Wa (Thai) (km² to sq wa)

1 square kilometer equals 250,000 square wa (Thai) exactly.

1 square kilometer = 250,000 square wa (Thai)

How to convert square kilometers to square wa (Thai)

To convert square kilometers to square wa (Thai), multiply the number of square kilometers by 250,000. This factor is exact. To go the other way, multiply square wa (Thai) by 0.000004.

square wa (Thai) = square kilometers × 250,000

Example: 10 square kilometers = 2,500,000 square wa (Thai).

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

Square Wa (Thai) (sq wa)

ThaiTraditional unit (still used in some regions)

A square 2 meters on a side: exactly 4 m². Thai property prices are often quoted per square wa.

Tarang wa, the Thai name behind the English square wa, literally refers to a grid of wa. It is the smallest standard Thai land unit, the area of a square with sides of one wa, so with a wa of 2 meters it equals 4 square meters.

One hundred square wa form a ngan and 400 form a rai. Because it is so small, it is the unit in which urban plots and condominium-adjacent land are usually priced, and listings often quote a price per square wa.

Its value is the square of the wa, so any change to the wa would flow straight through, but the metric definition has been fixed since the cadastral survey of the Royal Thai Survey Department began in 1896. A typical townhouse lot of 20 square wa is therefore 80 square meters.

1 square wa (Thai) = 4 square meters (exactly).

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

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