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The 'square yard' is an Imperial unit/U.S. customary unit (non-SI non-metric) of area, used in most of the English-speaking world. It is defined as the area of a square with sides of one yard (three feet, thirty-six inches, 0.9144 metres) in length.

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Symbols

Conversions

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Symbols

There is no universally agreed symbol but the following are used:

★ square yards, square yard, square yds, square yd

★ sq yards, sq yard, sq yds, sq yd

★ yards/-2, yard/-2, yds/-2, yd/-2

★ yards^2, yard^2, yds^2, yd^2

★ yards², yard², yds², yd²

Conversions

One square yard is equivalent to:

★ 1,296 square inches

★ Nine square feet

★ ≈0.00020661157 acres

★ ≈0.000000322830579 square miles

★ 836 127.36 square millimetres

★ 8 361.2736 square centimetres

★ 0.83612736 square metres

★ 0.00000083612736 square kilometres

See also

★ 1 E-1 m² for a comparison with other areas

★ Cubic yard

★ Orders of magnitude (area)

★ Conversion of units

★ Area (geometry)

★ Square (algebra), Square root