Square yard

The square yard (Northern India: gaj, Pakistan: gaz) is an imperial unit and U.S. customary unit of area. It is in widespread use in most of the English-speaking world, particularly the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Pakistan and India. It is defined as the area of a square with sides of one yard (three feet, thirty-six inches, 0.9144 metres) in length.

square yard
Unit system	Imperial, United States customary units
Unit of	area
Symbol	yd2, sq yd
Conversions
1 yd2 in ...	... is equal to ...
Imperial/US	1296 sq in 9 sq ft
SI units	8361.2736 cm2 0.8361 m2

Comparison of 1 square yard with some Imperial and metric units of area

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, 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
• 9 square feet
• ≈0.00020661157 acres
• ≈0.000000322830579 square miles
• 836 127.36 square millimetres
• 8 361.2736 square centimetres
• 0.83612736 square metres
• 0.000083612736 hectares
• 0.00000083612736 square kilometres
• 1.00969 gaj

See also

• 1 E-1 m² for a comparison with other areas
• Area (geometry)
• Conversion of units
• Cubic yard
• Metrication in Canada
• Orders of magnitude (area)
• Square (algebra), Square root