Difference between Acre and Hectare

What is the difference between Acre and Hectare?

Acre as a noun is a field. while Hectare as a noun is a unit of surface area (symbol ha) equal to 100 ares (that is, 10,000 square metres, one hundredth of a square kilometre, or approximately 2.5 acres), used for measuring the areas of geographical features such as land and bodies of water.

Acre

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A field. A unit of surface area (symbol a. or ac.), originally as much as a yoke of oxen could plough in a day; later defined as an area 1 chain (22 yd) by 1 furlong (220 yd), or 4,840 square yards. Equivalent to about 4,046.86 square metres. A large amount (of area).

Hectare

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A unit of surface area (symbol ha) equal to 100 ares (that is, 10,000 square metres, one hundredth of a square kilometre, or approximately 2.5 acres), used for measuring the areas of geographical features such as land and bodies of water.

We hope you now know whether to use Acre or Hectare in your sentence.

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