SI Unit List Article
Image comparing various units: square mile (the entire yellow square), square kilometre , hectare and acre , as well as a soccer field and a Manhattan block . An area of one square kilometre consists of 100 hectares each containing 10,000 square metres .
This page is a progressive and labelled list of the SI area orders of magnitude, with certain examples appended to some list objects.
10 −70 to 10 −9 square metres
List of orders of magnitude for area 10 −70 to 10 −9 square metres
Factor (m2 )
Multiple
Value
Item
10 −70
2.6× 10 −70 m2
Planck area ,
G
ℏ
c
3
{\displaystyle {\frac {G\hbar }{c^{3}}}}
[1]
10 −60
1 square quectometre
10 −54
1 square rontometre
10 −52
100 rm2
1 shed [2]
10 −48
1 square yoctometre (ym2 )
1 ym2
10 −43
100,000 ym2
1 femtobarn [3]
10−42
1 square zeptometre (zm2 )
1 zm2
10−36
1 square attometre (am2 )
1 am2
10−30
1 square femtometre (fm2 )
1 fm2
10−29
66.52 fm2
Thomson cross-section of the electron[4]
10−28
100 fm2
1 barn , roughly the cross-sectional area of a uranium nucleus [5]
10−24
1 square picometre (pm2 )
1 pm2
10−20
1 square angstrom (Å2 )
10,000 pm2
10−19
100,000 pm2
Area of a lipid bilayer , per molecule[6]
75,000–260,000 pm2
Surface area of the 20 standard amino acids [7]
10−18
1 square nanometre (nm2 )
1 nm2
10−16
100 nm2
Globular proteins : solvent-accessible surface area of a typical globular protein, having a typical molecular mass of ~35000 u (quite variable)[8]
10−14
17,000 nm2
Cross-sectional area of a nuclear pore complex in vertebrates[9]
10−12
1 square micrometre (μm2 )
6 μm2
Surface area of an E. coli bacterium[10]
10−10
100 μm2
Surface area of a red blood cell [11]
10−9
6,000–110,000 μm2
Range of common LCD screen pixel sizes [12]
7,000 μm2
Area of a dot printed using 300 dots per inch resolution[13]
8,000 μm2
Cross-sectional area of a straight human hair that is 100 μm[14] in diameter[15]
10−8 to 10−1 square metres
List of orders of magnitude for areas 10−8 to 10−1 square metres
Factor (m2 )
Multiple
Value
Item
10−8
55,000 μm2
Size of a pixel on a typical modern computer display
10−7
2-400,000 μm2
Cross-sectional area of a mechanical pencil lead (0.5-0.7 mm in diameter)[16]
10−6
1 square millimetre (mm2 )
1–2 mm2
Area of a human fovea [17]
2 mm2
Area of the head of a pin
10−5
30–50 mm2
Area of a 6–8 mm hole punched in a piece of paper by a hole punch [18]
10−4
1 square centimetre (cm2 )
290 mm2
Area of one side of a U.S. penny[19] [20]
500 mm2
Area of a typical postage stamp
10−3
1,100 mm2
Area of a human retina[21]
4,600 mm2
Area of the face of a credit card [22]
4,800 mm2
Largest side of a cigarette box
10−2
1 square decimetre (dm2 )
10,000 mm2
Index card (3 × 5 inches )[23]
60,000 mm2
American letter paper (11 × 8.5 inches , "A" size)
62,370 mm2
International A4 paper (210 × 297 mm)
92,903 mm2
1 square foot [24]
10−1
125,000 mm2
International A3 paper (297 × 420 mm)
180,000 mm2
Surface area of a basketball (diameter 24 cm)[25] [26]
250,000 mm2
International A2 paper (420 × 594 mm)
500,000 mm2
International A1 paper (594 × 841 mm)
100 to 107 square metres
List of orders of magnitude for areas 100 to 107 square metres.
Factor (m2 )
Multiple
Value
Item
100
1 square metre
1 m2
International A0 paper (841 × 1189 mm)
1.73 m2
A number commonly used as the average body surface area of a human[27]
1–4 m2
Area of the top of an office desk
101
10–20 m2
A parking space
70 m2
Approximate surface area of a human lung[28]
102
1 square decametre (dam2 )
100 m2
One are (a)
162 m2
Size of a volleyball court (18 × 9 metres)[29]
202 m2
Floor area of a median suburban three-bedroom house in the US in 2010: 2,169 sq ft (201.5 m2 )[30]
261 m2
Size of a tennis court [31]
437 m2
Size of an NBA/WNBA/NCAA basketball court [32]
845 m2
Wing area of Airbus A380 , the largest commercial airliner[33]
978 m2
Size of the primary mirror of the Extremely Large Telescope , the largest optical telescope in the world (under construction)[34]
103
1 kilo square meter k(m2 )
1,000 m2
Surface area of a modern stremma or dunam
1,250 m2
Surface area of the water in an Olympic-size swimming pool [35]
4,047 m2
1 acre [36]
5,400 m2
Size of an American football field [37] [38]
7,140 m2
Size of a typical football (soccer) field [39] [40]
104
1 square hectometre (hm2 )
10,000 m2
1 hectare (ha)[41]
17,000 m2
Approximate area of a cricket field (theoretical limits: 6,402 m2 to 21,273 m2 )[42]
22,100 m2
Area of a Manhattan city block
53,000 m2
Base of the Great Pyramid of Giza [43] [44]
105
195,000 m2
Irish National Botanic Gardens [45]
490,000 m2
Vatican City [46]
600,000 m2
Total floor area of the Pentagon [47]
887,800 m2
AvtoVAZ main assembly building, Tolyatti, Russia (largest building by footprint)
106
1 mega square meter M(m2 )
1 square kilometre (km2 )
1.76 km2
New Century Global Center , Chengdu, China (largest building by total floor area)
2 km2
Monaco (country ranked 192nd by area)[48]
2.59 km2
1 square mile [49]
2.9 km2
City of London (not all of modern London )[50]
107
59.5 km2
Manhattan Island (land area)[51]
61 km2
San Marino [52]
108 to 1014 square metres
Factor (m2 )
Multiple
Value
Item
108
105 km2
Paris (inner city only)[53]
110 km2
Walt Disney World [54]
272 km2
Taipei City [55]
630 km2
Toronto [56]
109
1 giga square meter G(m2 )
1100 km2
Hong Kong [57]
1290 km2
Los Angeles, California , United States (city)[58]
1962 km2
Jacksonville, Florida ; largest city in the Continental US [59]
2188 km2
Tokyo [60]
3,130 km2
Average area of an American county
5780 km2
Administrative area of Bali [61]
8030 km2
Community of Madrid , Spain
1010
11,000 km2
Jamaica [62]
30,528 km2
Belgium
68,870 km2
Lake Victoria [63]
84,000 km2
Austria[64]
1011
100,000 km2
South Korea [65]
167,996 km2
Jiuquan in China
232,000 km2
Total area covered by underwater search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (including both 2014-2017 and 2018 searches)
238,397
Romania [66]
301,338 km2
Italy [67]
357,000 km2
Germany[68]
377,900 km2
Japan[69]
510,000 km2
Spain[70]
780,000 km2
Turkey [71]
1012
1 tera square meter T(m2 )
1 square megametre (Mm2 )
1.0 Mm2
Egypt (country ranked 29th by area )[72]
2 Mm2
Mexico
3.10 Mm2
Sakha (Yakutia) Republic in Russia (largest subnational governing body )[73]
5 Mm2
Largest extent of the Roman Empire [74] [75]
7.74 Mm2
Australia (country ranked 6th by area )[76]
8.5 Mm2
Brazil
9.5 Mm2
China/ United States of America
1013
10 Mm2
Canada (including water)[77]
14 Mm2
Antarctica [78]
14 Mm2
Arable land worldwide[79]
16.6 Mm2
Surface area of Pluto [80]
17 Mm2
Russia (country ranked 1st by area )[81]
30 Mm2
Africa [82]
35.5 Mm2
Largest extent of the British Empire [83]
38 Mm2
Surface area of the Moon [84]
77 Mm2
Atlantic Ocean [85]
1014
144 Mm2
Surface area of Mars [86]
150 Mm2
Land area of Earth [87]
156 Mm2
Pacific Ocean [88]
360 Mm2
Water area of Earth[87]
510 Mm2
Total surface area of Earth[87]
1015 to 1026 square metres