Square Yards to Feddans (yd² to fd)
1 square yard equals 0.0001990779429 feddans (rounded).
How to convert square yards to feddans
To convert square yards to feddans, multiply the number of square yards by 0.0001990779429. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply feddans by 5,023.158194 (rounded).
feddans = square yards × 0.0001990779429
Example: 10 square yards = 0.001990779429 feddans.
Approximate value. Standards for the feddan 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 Yard (yd²)
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
Feddan (fd)
About 4,200 m² (1.037 acres). The standard unit of farmland in Egypt, divided into 24 qirat.
In Classical Arabic faddan meant a yoke of oxen, so the name points to the ground a team could plough in a season. That idea explains why the feddan was never a single fixed size everywhere: in Syria it stayed vague, covering roughly 5 to 12 hectares of land worked by a pair of oxen over a year.
Egypt gave it a precise value. The metric system became optional there in 1873 and compulsory for government use in 1891, and the 1891 equivalences set the feddan near 4,200.8 square metres. The main Wikipedia article rounds this to 4,200 square metres, based on a plot of 60 by 70 metres, and the figure used here follows that article. The two readings differ by well under a tenth of a percent, or about 1.04 acres.
The feddan is divided into 24 qirat, each about 175 square metres, with a finer sahm equal to one 576th of a feddan. It was the one non-metric unit that stayed in everyday use in Egypt after metrication, and it is still the normal measure for farmland there, with use in Sudan, South Sudan and Oman as well.
1 feddan = 4,200 square meters (approximately).
Sources: Wikipedia: Feddan; Wikipedia: Egyptian units of measurement
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