500 hectares are 5 km²

500 hectares equal 5,000,000 square metres (5.00 km²) — about 700 football fields or 1,236 acres. But a figure like that is hard to picture: drag the map above to your city or a place you know to see these 500 hectares drawn at real scale.

To picture it, 500 hectares cover roughly the same as:

• about three and a half times London's Hyde Park (142 ha)
• two and a half times the Principality of Monaco (202 ha)
• one and a half times New York's Central Park (341 ha)

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

Frequently asked questions

How big are 500 hectares?

500 hectares are 5,000,000 square metres (5.00 km²), about 700 football fields or 1,236 acres.

How many football fields fit in 500 hectares?

About 700 standard football pitches. Each pitch is 105 × 68 metres, roughly 7,140 m², i.e. 0.714 hectares — so a hectare is bigger than a football pitch, not the other way round.

How big is a square of 500 hectares?

A square of 500 hectares measures 2.24 km on each side. Drawn as a circle, which is what the Hectareometer does, it would have a radius of 1.26 km.