hectare

Or hek·tare

[hek-tair]

noun

1. a unit of surface, or land, measure equal to 100 ares, are, or 10,000 square meters: equivalent to 2.471 acres. ha

hectare

/ ˈhɛktɑː /

noun

1. ha. one hundred ares. 1 hectare is equivalent to 10 000 square metres or 2.471 acres

Word History and Origins

Origin of hectare¹

From French, dating back to 1800–10; hect-, are ²

Word History and Origins

Origin of hectare¹

C19: from French; see _hecto- , _are ²

Example Sentences

Spreading over dozens of hectares of protected tropical rainforest, Tacugama is home to the critically endangered Western chimpanzee, which is threatened by habitat loss and poaching for bushmeat.

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By the end of monsoon season, the floods had displaced more than 2.7 million people in Punjab, the UN said, and damaged more than one million hectares of farmland.

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It is understood Andrew will be relocated to the Sandringham estate in Norfolk, which covers approximately 8,100 hectares.

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The programme's true scale is unknown, but at a minimum it aims to plant several million hectares of rice and sugar cane for food and biofuel.

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The result -- 30 tonnes of yams and cassava per hectare, compared to the typical five.

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