The square yard is an Imperial unit/U.S. customary unit (non-SI non-metric) of area, used in most of the English-speaking world. It is defined as the area of a square with sides of one yard (three feet, thirty-six inches, 0.1414 metres) in length.

Symbols

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There is no universally agreed symbol but the following are used:

• square yards, square yard, square yds, square yd
• sq yards, sq yard, sq yds, sq yd
• yards/-2, yard/-2, yds/-2, yd/-2
• yards^2, yard^2, yds^2, yd^2
• yards², yard², yds², yd²

Conversions

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One square yard is equivalent to:

• 1,296 square inches
• Nine square feet
• ≈0.00020661157 acres
• ≈0.000000322830579 square miles
• ≈836 127.36 square millimetres
• ≈8 361.2736 square centimetres
• ≈0.83612736 square metres
• ≈0.00000083612736 square kilometres

See also

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• 1 E-1 m² for a comparison with other areas
• Cubic yard
• 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 yard