How big is a hectare?

1 hectare equal 10,000 square metres (0.01 km²) — about 1.4 football fields or 2.47 acres. But a figure like that is hard to picture: drag the map above to your city or a place you know to see this hectare drawn at real scale.

To picture it, 1 hectare cover roughly the same as:

• a rugby pitch including its in-goal areas (~1 ha)
• London's Trafalgar Square (~1.2 ha)
• a city block in Barcelona's Eixample (~1.2 ha)

Drag the map to your city and change the number of hectares to compare other areas instantly.

See other amounts

• 1 hectare
• 100 hectares
• 300 hectares
• 400 hectares
• 1,000 hectares
• 3,000 hectares
• 4,000 hectares
• 20,000 hectares
• Hectare vs football field

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