Square yards
Physical unit | |
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Unit name | Square yards |
Unit symbol | |
Physical quantity (s) | Area |
Formula symbol | |
dimension | |
system | Anglo-American system of measurement |
In SI units | |
Derived from | yard |
The square yard ( English square yard , sometimes abbreviated as or ) is an Anglo-American unit of area , defined as the area of a square with an edge length of 1 yard .
1 square yard = 9 square feet = 1296 square inches = 8361.2736 cm²
1 acre = 4840 square yard = 4046.8564224 m²
1 square mile = 640 acres = 3,097,600 square yards