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The square yard is an imperial
Imperial unit

Imperial units or the imperial system is a system of units, first defined in the British Weights and Measures Act of 1824, later refined and reduced....
/US customary (non-metric
Metric system

The metric system is an international decimalised systems of measurement, founded by France in 1791, that is the common system of Unit of measurement used by most of the world....
) unit of area
Area

Area is a quantity expressing the two-dimensional size of a defined part of a surface, typically a region bounded by a closed curve. The term surface area refers to the total area of the exposed surface of a 3-dimensional solid, such as the sum of the areas of the exposed sides of a polyhedron....
, formerly used in most of the English
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
-speaking world but now generally replaced by the square metre
Square metre

The square metre is the SI derived unit of area, with symbol m?. It is defined as the area of a square whose sides measure exactly one metre....
 outside of the US. It is defined as the area of a square
Square (geometry)

In Euclidean geometry, a square is a regular polygon with four equal sides and four equal angles . A square with vertices ABCD would be denoted ....
 with sides of one yard
Yard

A yard is a Units of measurement of length in several different systems, including English units, Imperial units, and United States customary units....
 (three feet, thirty-six inch
Inch

An inch is the name of a Units of measurement of length in a number of different systems, including Imperial units, and United States customary units....
es, 0.9144 metre
Metre

The metre or meter is a Unit of measurement of length. It is the SI base unit of length in the metric system and in the International System of Units , used around the world for general and scientific purposes....
s) in length
Length

Length is the long dimension of any object. The length of a thing is the distance between its ends, its linear extent as measured from end to end....
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The square yard is an imperial
Imperial unit

Imperial units or the imperial system is a system of units, first defined in the British Weights and Measures Act of 1824, later refined and reduced....
/US customary (non-metric
Metric system

The metric system is an international decimalised systems of measurement, founded by France in 1791, that is the common system of Unit of measurement used by most of the world....
) unit of area
Area

Area is a quantity expressing the two-dimensional size of a defined part of a surface, typically a region bounded by a closed curve. The term surface area refers to the total area of the exposed surface of a 3-dimensional solid, such as the sum of the areas of the exposed sides of a polyhedron....
, formerly used in most of the English
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
-speaking world but now generally replaced by the square metre
Square metre

The square metre is the SI derived unit of area, with symbol m?. It is defined as the area of a square whose sides measure exactly one metre....
 outside of the US. It is defined as the area of a square
Square (geometry)

In Euclidean geometry, a square is a regular polygon with four equal sides and four equal angles . A square with vertices ABCD would be denoted ....
 with sides of one yard
Yard

A yard is a Units of measurement of length in several different systems, including English units, Imperial units, and United States customary units....
 (three feet, thirty-six inch
Inch

An inch is the name of a Units of measurement of length in a number of different systems, including Imperial units, and United States customary units....
es, 0.9144 metre
Metre

The metre or meter is a Unit of measurement of length. It is the SI base unit of length in the metric system and in the International System of Units , used around the world for general and scientific purposes....
s) in length
Length

Length is the long dimension of any object. The length of a thing is the distance between its ends, its linear extent as measured from end to end....
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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 inch
    Square inch

    A square inch is a Units of measurement of area, equal to the area of a Square with sides of one inch. The following symbols are used to denote square inches:...
    es
  • Nine square feet
    Square foot

    The square foot is an imperial unit / U.S. customary unit of area, used mainly in the United States and United Kingdom. It is defined as the area of a Square with sides of 1 foot in length....
  • ˜0.00020661157 acre
    Acre

    The acre is a Units of measurement of area in a number of different systems, including the Imperial unit#Measures of area and United States customary units#Units of area systems....
    s
  • ˜0.000000322830579 square mile
    Square mile

    The square mile is an Imperial system and US customary system of measure for an area equal to the area of a square of one mile. It should not be confused with miles square, which refers to the number of miles on each side squared....
    s
  • 836 127.36 square millimetres
  • 8 361.2736 square centimetres
  • 0.83612736 square metre
    Square metre

    The square metre is the SI derived unit of area, with symbol m?. It is defined as the area of a square whose sides measure exactly one metre....
    s
  • 0.00000083612736 square kilometre
    Square kilometre

    Square kilometre , symbol km2, is a decimal multiple of the SI Units of measurement of surface area, the square metre, one of the SI derived units....
    s


See also

  • 1 E-1 m²
    1 E-1 m²

    Image:Scale one to hundred no labels.svg|110px|right|Click on the small dark green top-left square for quantities smaller than 0.1 square metres, the mid green square for 0.1 to 1 square metres, the light green square for 10 to 100 square metres, and the pale green surround for over 100 square metres...
     for a comparison with other areas
  • Cubic yard
    Cubic yard

    A cubic yard is an Imperial unit / U.S. customary unit unit of volume, used in the United States, Canada, and the UK. It is defined as the volume of a cube with sides of 1 yard in length....
  • Orders of magnitude (area)
    Orders of magnitude (area)

    This page is a progressive and labeled list of the SI area orders of magnitude, with certain examples appended to some list objects....
  • Conversion of units
    Conversion of units

    Conversion of units refers to conversion factors between different units of measurement for the same quantity....
  • Area (geometry)
  • Square (algebra)
    Square (algebra)

    In algebra, the square of a number is that number multiplication by itself. To square a quantity is to multiply it by itself.Its notation is a superscripted "2"; a number x squared is written as x?....
    , Square root
    Square root

    In mathematics, a square root of a number x is a number r such that r2 = x, or, in other words, a number r whose square is x....