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Comparison of units of area
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1 km2
An area of one square kilometre consists of 100 hectares each containing 10,000 square metres.

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

10−70 to 10−9 square metres

List of orders of magnitude for area 10−70 to 10−9 square metres
Factor (m2) Multiple Value Item
10−70   2.6×10−70 m2 Planck area, \frac{G \hbar}{c^3}
10−60 1 square quectometre
10−54 1 square rontometre
10−52   100 rm2 1 shed
10−48 1 square yoctometre (ym2)  1 ym2  
10−43   100,000 ym2 1 femtobarn
10−42 1 square zeptometre (zm2)  1 zm2  
10−36 1 square attometre (am2)  1 am2  
10−30 1 square femtometre (fm2)  1 fm2  
10−29   66.52 fm2 Thomson cross-section of the electron
10−28   100 fm2 1 barn, roughly the cross-sectional area of a uranium nucleus
10−24 1 square picometre (pm2)  1 pm2  
10−20 1 square angstrom (Å2)  10,000 pm2  
10−19 100,000 pm2 Area of a lipid bilayer, per molecule
75,000–260,000 pm2 Surface area of the 20 standard amino acids
10−18 1 square nanometre (nm2)  1 nm2  
10−16 100 nm2 Globular proteins: solvent-accessible surface area of a typical globular protein, having a typical molecular mass of ~35000 u (quite variable)
10−14 17,000 nm2 Cross-sectional area of a nuclear pore complex in vertebrates
10−12 1 square micrometre (μm2) 6 μm2 Surface area of an E. coli bacterium
10−10   100 μm2 Surface area of a red blood cell
10−9   6,000–110,000 μm2 Range of common LCD screen pixel sizes
  7,000 μm2 Area of a dot printed using 300 dots per inch resolution
  8,000 μm2 Cross-sectional area of a straight human hair that is 100 μm in diameter

10−8 to 10−1 square metres

List of orders of magnitude for areas 10−8 to 10−1 square metres
Factor (m2) Multiple Value Item
10−8   55,000 μm2 Size of a pixel on a typical modern computer display
10−7   2-400,000 μm2 Cross-sectional area of a mechanical pencil lead (0.5-0.7 mm in diameter)
10−6 1 square millimetre (mm2) 1–2 mm2 Area of a human fovea
2 mm2 Area of the head of a pin
10−5   30–50 mm2 Area of a 6–8 mm hole punched in a piece of paper by a hole punch
10−4 1 square centimetre (cm2) 290 mm2 Area of one side of a U.S. penny
500 mm2 Area of a typical postage stamp
10−3   1,100 mm2 Area of a human retina
4,600 mm2 Area of the face of a credit card
4,800 mm2 Largest side of a cigarette box
10−2 1 square decimetre (dm2) 10,000 mm2 Index card (3 × 5 inches)
60,000 mm2 American letter paper (11 × 8.5 inches, "A" size)
62,370 mm2 International A4 paper (210 × 297 mm)
92,903 mm2 1 square foot
10−1   125,000 mm2 International A3 paper (297 × 420 mm)
180,000 mm2 Surface area of a basketball (diameter 24 cm)
250,000 mm2 International A2 paper (420 × 594 mm)
500,000 mm2 International A1 paper (594 × 841 mm)

100 to 107 square metres

List of orders of magnitude for areas 100 to 107 square metres.
Factor (m2) Multiple Value Item
100 1 square metre 1 m2 International A0 paper (841 × 1189 mm)
1.73 m2 A number commonly used as the average body surface area of a human
1–4 m2 Area of the top of an office desk
101   10–20 m2 A parking space
70 m2 Approximate surface area of a human lung
102 1 square decametre (dam2) 100 m2 One are (a)
162 m2 Size of a volleyball court (18 × 9 metres)
202 m2 Floor area of a median suburban three-bedroom house in the US in 2010: 2,169 sq ft (201.5 m2)
261 m2 Size of a tennis court
437 m2 Size of an NBA/WNBA/NCAA basketball court
103 1 kilo square meter k(m²) 1,000 m2 Surface area of a modern stremma or dunam
1,250 m2 Surface area of the water in an Olympic-size swimming pool
4,047 m2 1 acre
5,400 m2 Size of an American football field
7,140 m2 Size of a typical football (soccer) field
104 1 square hectometre (hm2) 10,000 m2 1 hectare (ha)
17,000 m2 Approximate area of a cricket field (theoretical limits: 6,402 m2 to 21,273 m2)
22,100 m2 Area of a Manhattan city block
53,000 m2 Base of the Great Pyramid of Giza
105   195,000 m2 Irish National Botanic Gardens
490,000 m2 Vatican City
600,000 m2 Total floor area of the Pentagon
887,800 m2 AvtoVAZ main assembly building, Tolyatti, Russia (largest building by footprint)
106 1 mega square meter M(m²)

1 square kilometre (km2)

 1.76 km2 New Century Global Center, Chengdu, China (largest building by total floor area)
2 km2 Monaco (country ranked 192nd by area)
2.59 km2 1 square mile
2.9 km2 City of London (not all of modern London)
107   59.5 km2 Manhattan Island (land area)
61 km2 San Marino

108 to 1014 square metres

Factor (m2) Multiple Value Item
108   105 km2 Paris (inner city only)
110 km2 Walt Disney World
272 km2 Taipei City
630 km2 Toronto
109 1 giga square meter G(m²) 1100 km2 Hong Kong
1290 km2 Los Angeles, California, United States (city)
1962 km2 Jacksonville, Florida; largest city in the Continental US
2188 km2 Tokyo
3,130 km2 Average area of an American county
5780 km2 Administrative area of Bali
8030 km2 Community of Madrid, Spain
1010   11,000 km2 Jamaica
30,528 km2 Belgium
68,870 km2 Lake Victoria
84,000 km2 Austria
1011   100,000 km2 South Korea
167,996 km2 Jiuquan in China
232,000 km2 Total area covered by underwater search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (including both 2014-2017 and 2018 searches)
301,338 km2 Italy
357,000 km2 Germany
377,900 km2 Japan
510,000 km2 Spain
780,000 km2 Turkey
1012 1 tera square meter T(m²)

1 square megametre (Mm2)

 1.0 Mm2 Egypt (country ranked 29th by area)
2 Mm2 Mexico
3.10 Mm2 Sakha (Yakutia) Republic in Russia (largest subnational governing body)
5 Mm2 Largest extent of the Roman Empire
7.74 Mm2 Australia (country ranked 6th by area)
8.5 Mm2 Brazil
9.5 Mm2 China/ United States of America
1013   10 Mm2 Canada (including water)
14 Mm2 Antarctica
14 Mm2 Arable land worldwide
16.6 Mm2 Surface area of Pluto
17 Mm2 Russia (country ranked 1st by area)
30 Mm2 Africa
35.5 Mm2 Largest extent of the British Empire
38 Mm2 Surface area of the Moon
77 Mm2 Atlantic Ocean
1014   144 Mm2 Surface area of Mars
150 Mm2 Land area of Earth
156 Mm2 Pacific Ocean
360 Mm2 Water area of Earth
510 Mm2 Total surface area of Earth

1015 to 1026 square metres

List of orders of magnitude for areas 1015 to 1026 square metres.
Factor (m2) Multiple Value Item
1015 1 peta square meter P(m²) 1,000 Mm2 Surface area of the white dwarf, Van Maanen's star
7,600 Mm2 Surface area of Neptune
1016   43,000 Mm2 Surface area of Saturn
61 000 Mm2 Surface area of Jupiter, the "surface" area of the spheroid (calculated from the mean radius as reported by NASA). The cross-sectional area of Jupiter, which is the same as the "circle" of Jupiter seen by an approaching spacecraft, is almost exactly one quarter the surface-area of the overall sphere, which in the case of Jupiter is approximately 1.535×1016 m2.
1017   2-600 000 Mm2 Surface area of the brown dwarf CT Chamaeleontis B.
460,000 Mm2 Area swept by the Moon's orbit of Earth
1018 1 square gigametre (Gm2) 6.1 Gm2 Surface area of the Sun
1019   30 Gm2 Surface area of the star Vega
1020    100 Gm2  
1021 1 zetta square meter Z(m²) 1 000 Gm2
1022   11 000 Gm2 Area swept by Mercury's orbit around the Sun
37 000 Gm2 Area swept by Venus' orbit around the Sun
71 000 Gm2 Area swept by Earth's orbit around the Sun
1023   160 000 Gm2 Area swept by Mars' orbit around the Sun
281 000 Gm2 Surface area of a Dyson sphere with a radius of 1 AU
1024 1 yotta square meter (m²)

1 square terametre (Tm2)

 1.9 Tm2 Area swept by Jupiter's orbit around the Sun
6.4 Tm2 Area swept by Saturn's orbit around the Sun
8.5 Tm2 Surface area of the red supergiant star Betelgeuse
1025   24 Tm2 Surface area of the hypergiant star VY Canis Majoris
26 Tm2 Area swept by Uranus' orbit around the Sun
64 Tm2 Area swept by Neptune's orbit around the Sun
1026   110 Tm2 Area swept by Pluto's orbit around the Sun

1027 square metres and larger

List of orders of magnitude for areas 1027 square metres and larger.
Factor (m2) Multiple Value Item
1030 1 square petametre (Pm2)
1031 10 Pm2
1032 200 Pm2 Roughly the surface area of an Oort Cloud
300 Pm2 Roughly the surface area of a Bok globule
1033 1 000 Pm2
1034 30 000 Pm2 Roughly the surface area of The Bubble nebula
1035 100 000 Pm2
1036 1 square exametre (Em2)
...
1041 700 000 Em2 Roughly the area of Milky Way's galactic disk
1042 1 square zettametre (Zm2)
...
1048 1 square yottametre (Ym2)
1054 1 square ronnametre (Rm2) 2.4 Rm2 Surface area of the observable universe

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