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How to pronounce hectare in English?

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Type of area unit, square measure

Examples of hectare

hectare
A hectare is about the size of a baseball field or an international rugby pitch.
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One of the first areas they planted was a half-hectare orchard for personal use.
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They numbered about 10,000 wasps per hectare, with about 30-plus nests, he said.
From the stuff.co.nz
The annual cost of maintaining fenced forest was calculated at $3365 per hectare.
From the nzherald.co.nz
Drained peat bogs release some 2.5 to 10 tonnes of carbon per hectare per year.
From the sciencedaily.com
And not a single commercial hectare there has yet been planted with such seeds.
From the economist.com
Median prices per hectare increased to $16,013 from $14,972 for the same periods.
From the nbr.co.nz
Once developed, similar land assets have been valued at about $5,000 a hectare.
From the guardian.co.uk
Yet in Africa, yields have remained stayed stuck at under two tonnes per hectare.
From the guardian.co.uk
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  • (abbreviated `ha') a unit of surface area equal to 100 ares (or 10,000 square meters)
  • The hectare is a unit of area, defined as 10,000 square metres, and primarily used in the measurement of land. In 1795, when the metric system was introduced, the are was defined as being 100 square metres and the hectare ('hecto-' + 'are') was thus 100 ares or 1/100 km2. ...
  • A unit of surface area (symbol ha) equal to 100 ares (that is, 10,000 square metres, one hundredth of a square kilometre, or approximately 2.5 acres), used for measuring the areas of geographical features such as land and bodies of water
  • (Hectares (Ha)) The area of land measurement used in this analysis. The conversion factor used, where appropriate, is 1 hectare = 2.471 acres.
  • The equivalent of 2.471 acres.
  • Area of land equal to 2.47 acres.
  • The most commonly used measurement of area in viticulture, the hectare is 10 000 m^2, approximately equivalent to 2.5 acres. Yields may be expressed in hectolitres per hectare.
  • Unit of measurement of area. 1 ha = 2.47 acres = 10,000 m^2; 100 ha = 1 km^2.
  • An area equal to 100 meters by 100 meters.