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The square foot is an Imperial unit / U.S. customary unit (non-SI non-metric) of area, used in the United States. It is defined as the area of a square with sides of 1 foot (0.333... yards, 12 inches, or 0.3048 metres) in length.
Symbols
There is no universally agreed symbol but the following are used:
- square feet, square foot, square ft
- sq feet, sq foot, sq ft, SF
- feet/-2, foot/-2, ft/-2
- feet^2, foot^2, ft^2
- feet², foot², ft²
A symbol for square foot, square feet, and “per square foot” commonly used in architecture, real estate and interior space plans is a simple square with a slash through it. It is also occasionally written as a square with a vertical line bisecting it.
Conversions
1 square foot is equivalent to:
- 144 square inches
- 0.111--> square yards
- 0.01 "squares". (A square is a unit used in Australia before metrication (and since) to measure the floor area of a house. 1 "square" = 100 sq. ft.)
- ≈0.00002295684110 acres
- ≈92 903.04 square millimetres
- ≈929.0304 square centimetres
- ≈0.09290304 square metres
- ≈0.000000092903040 square kilometres
See also
- 1 E-1 m² for a comparison with other areas
- Cubic foot
- Orders of magnitude (area)
- Conversion of units
- Area (geometry)
- Square (algebra), square root
Units of area | Imperial units | Customary units in the United States
"Square foot"