Square Meters to Arpents (m² to arpent)
1 square meter equals 0.0002924925926 arpents (rounded).
How to convert square meters to arpents
To convert square meters to arpents, multiply the number of square meters by 0.0002924925926. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply arpents by 3,418.89.
arpents = square meters × 0.0002924925926
Example: 10 square meters = 0.002924925926 arpents.
Approximate value. Standards for the arpent (North American) varied by place and period, so this converter uses the most commonly cited value. Treat results as estimates, not exact figures.
About these units
Square Meter (m²)
The SI unit of area: a square one meter on each side. Used for floor areas and property sizes in most of the world.
Squaring the meter was built into the metric system from the start. The French law of 18 Germinal, Year III (7 April 1795) defined the are, the land unit that gave the hectare its name, as exactly 100 square meters, so the square meter was already the foundation of metric land measure. Nobody is credited with inventing it as a separate unit. It is simply the area of a square one meter on each side, and any SI prefix that works for the meter works for it, with the prefix squared along with the unit.
That squaring catches people out: a square kilometer is one million square meters, not one thousand. Since 1983 the meter has been defined through the speed of light, so the square meter is tied to a constant of nature as well as to the second. A hectare, about the area of Trafalgar Square in London, is 10,000 square meters. In everyday terms one square meter is about 10.76 square feet. Unicode has a compatibility character for it, but the recommended way to write it is the plain superscript two: m².
The square meter is the reference unit for area on this site.
Sources: Wikipedia: Square metre; Wikipedia: Are (unit); NIST: the meter and the SI redefinition
Arpent (North American) (arpent)
About 3,419 m² (0.845 acre), a square of 180 French feet. Still used in Louisiana and Quebec land records. The older Paris arpent was larger, about 5,107 m².
Arpent probably descends from the Late Latin arepennis, half a jugerum, which may itself trace to a Gaulish word for the end of a field. French surveyors used it for land and forests, and the size changed from province to province. Wikipedia describes the Paris arpent as 220 French feet on a side, about 71.5 m, which gives roughly 5,107 square meters.
The smaller arpent of 180 French feet, about 58.5 m on a side, gives 32,400 square French feet, near 3,419 square meters or 0.845 acre. Wikipedia files this version under North America, where Louisiana grants usually fixed river frontage in arpents with plots 40 or more deep. Some states round it differently, to 0.84628 acre in Louisiana and 0.8507 acre in Arkansas and Missouri.
The figure used here is 3,418.9 square meters. Mauritius and Seychelles use yet another arpent, near 4,221 square meters, and Quebec land records still use the term.
1 arpent (North American) = 3,418.89 square meters (approximately).
Sources: Wikipedia: Arpent
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