Square Yards to Dunams (yd² to dunam)

1 square yard equals 0.00083612736 dunams exactly.

1 square yard = 0.00083612736 dunams

How to convert square yards to dunams

To convert square yards to dunams, multiply the number of square yards by 0.00083612736. This factor is exact. To go the other way, multiply dunams by 1,195.990046 (rounded).

dunams = square yards × 0.00083612736

Example: 10 square yards = 0.0083612736 dunams.

About these units

Square Yard (yd²)

US & ImperialCurrent unit

9 square feet (0.8361 m²). Used for carpet, turf and land in the UK and India (where it is called a gaj).

Branches and rods lie behind this unit. The word yard comes from Old English gerd or gyrd, meaning a staff or measuring rod, and it first appears in the late seventh-century laws of Ine of Wessex, where a yard of land was a tax unit. Where its length came from is uncertain: pacing, the cubit and the arm of King Henry I have all been suggested. A square yard is simply a square of that length on each side.

After the 1959 agreement among six countries fixed the yard at exactly 0.9144 meter, the square yard became exactly 9 square feet, 1,296 square inches or about 0.836 m². It is used across the English-speaking world, notably in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, India and Pakistan. In northern India it is called a gaj, and in Pakistan a gaz, and house plots there are often quoted in it. In the US and UK the yard, divided into eighths, is also how cloth is bought, so the square yard suits flooring and fabric in the same breath.

1 square yard = 0.83612736 square meters (exactly).

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

Dunam (dunam)

Middle EasternTraditional unit (still used in some regions)

Exactly 1,000 m² in the modern metric standard. Older Ottoman dunams varied by region, from about 900 to 2,500 m².

Ottoman Turkish dönmek means to turn, and the dunam probably follows the Byzantine Greek stremma, a land measure of similar size. Its legal definition was forty standard paces in length and breadth, but the real area differed from province to province, from just over 900 square meters in Ottoman Palestine to about 2,500 in Ottoman Iraq. Roughly it matched the land an ox team could plough in a day.

Today the metric dunam is standardised at exactly 1,000 square meters, a tenth of a hectare, and that is the figure used here. It is the working unit in Israel, Palestine, Syria, Iraq and Turkey, and the Balkan dunam is mostly the same, with local exceptions such as about 1,600 square meters around Leskovac in Serbia. Under the British Mandate the dunam was 919.3 square meters until the metric version was adopted in 1928. Cyprus lists its donum at 1,338 square meters, and the old Ottoman stremma in Greece is given as about 1,270.

1 dunam = 1,000 square meters (exactly).

Sources: Wikipedia: Dunam

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