Square Kilometer to Hectare Conversion (km² to ha)

How Many Hectare in a Square Kilometer?

There are 100 hectare in a square kilometer.
1 Square Kilometer is equal to 100 Hectare.
1 km² = 100 ha

Square Kilometer to Hectare Conversions

Square Kilometer Definition

A square kilometer is a unit of surface area allowing measuring quite large areas. It is one of the base SI units used widely in all countries of the world to measure large territories like the ones of a country, a region, and so on. In order to understand what one square kilometer is one can imagine the area of the Jerusalem Old City or the area of Rio de Los Angeles State Park in California. This unit is equal to 100 hectares and has an internationally accepted symbol of km².

Hectare Definition

Arguably, a hectare can be named one of the most commonly used unit of area as it is accepted both by the SI and the Imperial system. A hectare is equal to 10,000 square meters: in other words, it is a piece of area with both length and width of 100 m. It is also 1/100^th of a square km. The symbol accepted for hectare both in SI and the Imperial system is ha.

About km² to ha Converter

This is a very easy to use square kilometer to hectare converter. First of all just type the square kilometer (km²) value in the text field of the conversion form to start converting km² to ha, then select the decimals value and finally hit convert button if auto calculation didn't work. Hectare value will be converted automatically as you type.

The decimals value is the number of digits to be calculated or rounded of the result of square kilometer to hectare conversion.

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