Square yard

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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.

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

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^[1]