To aid in the comparison of sizes of different geographic regions, areas between 1 km2 (100 hectares) and 10 km2 (1000 hectares) are listed below. See also areas of other orders of magnitude.
- Areas smaller than 1 km2
- 1 square kilometre (U.S. spelling: square kilometer), symbol km2, is an SI unit of surface area. It is one of the SI derived units. It is equal to:
- 125 hectares-size of the National Mall in Washington, DC.
- 135 hectares—the campus of the United States Naval Academy
- 179 hectares—Bennebroek, smallest municipality in the Netherlands
- 195 hectares—Monaco (country ranked 192nd by area)
- 200 hectares—Herm, Channel Islands
- 250 hectares—Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens in London
- 258.998811 hectares—1 mile2 or section (USA)
- 290 hectares—City of London
- 320 hectares—Hampstead Heath in London
- 341 hectares—Central Park in New York
- 400 hectares—Great Wall of China, largest human structure.
- 460 hectares—Pitcairn Island
- 493 hectares—University of the Philippines, Diliman
- 515 hectares—Falls Church, Virginia, the smallest county-level political subdivision in the United States by area.
- 650 hectares—Gibraltar
- 890 hectares—size of largest organism on Earth, Armillaria ostoyae. [1]
- Areas larger than 10 km2
Notes
- ^ BBC: Fantastic Fungus Find accessed 31 August 2006
| Orders of magnitude for area | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 E-30 m² = 1 fm² | 1 E-24 m² = 1 pm² | 1 E-18 m² = 1 nm² | 1 E-12 m² = 1 µm² | 1 E-6 m² = 1 mm² | 1 E0 m² = 1 m² | 1 E+6 m² = 1 km² | 1 E+12 m² = 1 Mm² | 1 E+18-24 m² : 1 Gm² |
| 10 fm² | 10 pm² | 10 nm² | 10 µm² | 10 mm² | 10 m² | 10 km² | 10 Mm² | > 1 E+24 m² : 1 Tm² |
| 100 fm² | 100 pm² | 100 nm² | 100 µm² | 100 mm² = 1 cm² | 100 m² = 1 a | 100 km² | 100 Mm² | |
| 1,000 fm² | 1,000 pm² | 1,000 nm² | 1,000 µm² | 10 cm² | 10 a | 1,000 km² | 1,000 Mm² | |
| 10,000 fm² | 10,000 pm² | 10,000 nm² | 10,000 µm² | 100 cm² | 10,000 m² = 1 ha | 10,000 km² | 10,000 Mm² | |
| 100,000 fm² | 100,000 pm² | 100,000 nm² | 100,000 µm² | 1,000 cm² | 10 ha | 100,000 km² | 100,000 Mm² | |
| SI derived unit square metre, from base unit metre | Conversion of units for area | |||||||
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