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Hectare
The hectare is a metric unit of area defined as 10,000 square metres , and primarily used in the measurement of land. In 1795, when the metric system was introduced, the are was defined as being 100 square metres and the hectare was thus 100 ares or 1/100 km2...
s (100,000 m2
Square metre
The square metre or square meter is the SI derived unit of area, with symbol m2 . It is defined as the area of a square whose sides measure exactly one metre...
) and 100 hectares (1,000,000 m2) are listed below.
- Areas smaller than 0.1 km2
- 0.1 km2 is equal to:
- 1 E+5 m² or 100,000 m2Square metreThe square metre or square meter is the SI derived unit of area, with symbol m2 . It is defined as the area of a square whose sides measure exactly one metre...
- 10 hectareHectareThe hectare is a metric unit of area defined as 10,000 square metres , and primarily used in the measurement of land. In 1795, when the metric system was introduced, the are was defined as being 100 square metres and the hectare was thus 100 ares or 1/100 km2...
s - 25 acres
- 1.08 million square feet
- the area of a square with side of 316.2 m
- 1 E+5 m² or 100,000 m2
- 12 hectares – Base area of The PentagonThe PentagonThe Pentagon is the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense, located in Arlington County, Virginia. As a symbol of the U.S. military, "the Pentagon" is often used metonymically to refer to the Department of Defense rather than the building itself.Designed by the American architect...
, USA - 13 hectares - Place des QuinconcesPlace des QuinconcesThe Place des Quinconces, located in Bordeaux, France, is one of the largest city squares in Europe .It was laid out in 1820 on the site of Château Trompette, intended to prevent rebellion against the city. The guns were turned towards the center. Its current shape was adopted in 1816...
, BordeauxBordeauxBordeaux is a port city on the Garonne River in the Gironde department in southwestern France.The Bordeaux-Arcachon-Libourne metropolitan area, has a population of 1,010,000 and constitutes the sixth-largest urban area in France. It is the capital of the Aquitaine region, as well as the prefecture... - 16.1874257 hectares - 40 acres - 1/16 sectionSection (United States land surveying)In U.S. land surveying under the Public Land Survey System , a section is an area nominally one square mile, containing , with 36 sections making up one survey township on a rectangular grid....
(US Survey block) - 18 hectares - JethouJethouJethou is a small island that is part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey in the Channel Islands. It is privately leased, and not open to the public.It is immediately south of Herm and has an area of approximately .-History:...
- 19 hectares - Irish National Botanic GardensIrish National Botanic GardensThe National Botanic Gardens are located in Glasnevin, 5 km north-west of Dublin city centre, Ireland...
- 19 hectares - Liancourt RocksLiancourt RocksThe Liancourt Rocks, also known as Dokdo or Tokto in Korean or in Japanese, are a group of small islets in the Sea of Japan . Sovereignty over the islets is disputed between Japan and South Korea...
(total area, all islets) - 25 hectares - Tuileries GardenTuileries GardenThe Tuileries Garden is a public garden located between the Louvre Museum and the Place de la Concorde in the 1st arrondissement of Paris. Created by Catherine de Medicis as the garden of the Tuileries Palace in 1564, it was first opened to the public in 1667, and became a public park after the...
- 28 hectares - Ponte TresaPonte TresaPonte Tresa is a municipality in the district of Lugano in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.-History:Ponte Tresa is first mentioned in 818 as ad Tresiae Pontem, though this comes from a 12th Century copy of the earlier document. In 875 it was mentioned as Ponte Tretia...
(smallest municipality of Switzerland) - 34 hectares - Disneyland (public areas)
- 35 hectares - Palace of the ParliamentPalace of the ParliamentThe Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest, Romania is a multi-purpose building containing both chambers of the Romanian Parliament. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the Palace is the world's largest civilian administrative building, most expensive administrative building, and...
, Bucharest (floorspace) - 36 hectares - Ryugyong HotelRyugyong HotelThe Ryugyong Hotel is a 105-story skyscraper under construction in Pyongyang, North Korea. Its name is also one of the historic names for Pyongyang. The building is also known as the 105 Building, a reference to its number of floors...
in Pyongyang, North Korea (floorspace of largest unoccupied building) - 40 hectares - MacroplazaMacroplazaThe Macroplaza or La Gran Plaza is a town square or plaza located in the heart of the city of Monterrey, Mexico.The Macroplaza was built in the early 1980s during the governorship of Alfonso Martínez Domínguez...
, Monterrey - 44 hectares - Vatican CityVatican CityVatican City , or Vatican City State, in Italian officially Stato della Città del Vaticano , which translates literally as State of the City of the Vatican, is a landlocked sovereign city-state whose territory consists of a walled enclave within the city of Rome, Italy. It has an area of...
(country ranked 234th by area) - 44 hectares - Tiananmen SquareTiananmen SquareTiananmen Square is a large city square in the center of Beijing, China, named after the Tiananmen Gate located to its North, separating it from the Forbidden City. Tiananmen Square is the third largest city square in the world...
, Beijing - 62 hectares - The PentagonThe PentagonThe Pentagon is the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense, located in Arlington County, Virginia. As a symbol of the U.S. military, "the Pentagon" is often used metonymically to refer to the Department of Defense rather than the building itself.Designed by the American architect...
(gross floor area) - 72 hectares - Forbidden CityForbidden CityThe Forbidden City was the Chinese imperial palace from the Ming Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty. It is located in the middle of Beijing, China, and now houses the Palace Museum...
, Beijing - 90 hectares - Garden of the Versailles Palace http://www.chateauversailles.fr/pdf/Telecharger/2006/Guide_or_EN.pdf
- 99 hectares - Aalsmeer Flower AuctionAalsmeer Flower AuctionAalsmeer Flower Auction is a flower auction, located in Aalsmeer, the Netherlands.It is the largest flower auction in the world. The auction building of the flower auction in Aalsmeer is the 4th largest building in the world, in terms of floorspace, covering 990,000 m²...
in Aalsmeer, Holland (floorspace) - Areas larger than 1 km2