This page is a progressive and labelled list of the SI area orders of magnitude, with certain examples appended to some list objects.
Factor (m2) | Multiple | Value | Item |
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10−70 | 2.6×10−70 m2 | Planck area, [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] |
Factor (m2) | Multiple | Value | Item |
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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] | ||
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) |
Factor (m2) | Multiple | Value | Item |
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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] | ||
659,611 m2 | Total floor area of Surat Diamond Bourse (largest office building)[48] | ||
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)[49] | ||
2.59 km2 | 1 square mile[50] | ||
2.9 km2 | City of London (not all of modern London)[51] | ||
107 | 59.5 km2 | Manhattan Island (land area)[52] | |
61 km2 | San Marino[53] |
Factor (m2) | Multiple | Value | Item |
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108 | 105 km2 | Paris (inner city only)[54] | |
110 km2 | Walt Disney World[55] | ||
272 km2 | Taipei City[56] | ||
630 km2 | Toronto[57] | ||
109 | 1 giga square meter G(m2) | 1,100 km2 | Hong Kong[58] |
1,290 km2 | Los Angeles, California, United States (city)[59] | ||
1,962 km2 | Jacksonville, Florida; largest city in the Continental US[60] | ||
2,188 km2 | Tokyo[61] | ||
3,130 km2 | Average area of an American county | ||
5,780 km2 | Administrative area of Bali[62] | ||
8,030 km2 | Community of Madrid, Spain | ||
1010 | 11,000 km2 | Jamaica[63] | |
30,528 km2 | Belgium | ||
68,870 km2 | Lake Victoria[64] | ||
84,000 km2 | Austria[65] | ||
1011 | 100,000 km2 | South Korea[66] | |
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 km2 | Romania[67] | ||
301,338 km2 | Italy[68] | ||
357,000 km2 | Germany[69] | ||
377,900 km2 | Japan[70] | ||
510,000 km2 | Spain[71] | ||
780,000 km2 | Turkey[72] | ||
1012 | 1 tera square meter T(m2)
1 square megametre (Mm2) |
1.0 Mm2 | Egypt (country ranked 29th by area)[73] |
2 Mm2 | Mexico | ||
3.10 Mm2 | Sakha (Yakutia) Republic in Russia (largest subnational governing body)[74] | ||
3.28 Mm2 | India (country ranked 7th by area) | ||
5 Mm2 | Largest extent of the Roman Empire[75][76] | ||
7.74 Mm2 | Australia (country ranked 6th by area)[77] | ||
8.5 Mm2 | Brazil | ||
9.5 Mm2 | China/ United States of America | ||
1013 | 10 Mm2 | Canada (including water)[78] | |
14 Mm2 | Antarctica[79] | ||
14 Mm2 | Arable land worldwide[80] | ||
16.6 Mm2 | Surface area of Pluto[81] | ||
17 Mm2 | Russia (country ranked 1st by area)[82] | ||
24 Mm2 | Largest extent of Mongol Empire | ||
30 Mm2 | Africa[83] | ||
35.5 Mm2 | Largest extent of the British Empire[84] | ||
38 Mm2 | Surface area of the Moon[85] | ||
44.6 Mm2 | Asia (largest continent by area) | ||
70.5 Mm2 | Indian Ocean[86] | ||
85.1 Mm2 | Atlantic Ocean[87] | ||
1014 | 144 Mm2 | Surface area of Mars[88] | |
150 Mm2 | Land area of Earth[89] | ||
168.7 Mm2 | Pacific Ocean[90] | ||
360 Mm2 | Water area of Earth[89] | ||
510 Mm2 | Total surface area of Earth[89] |
Factor (m2) | Multiple | Value | Item |
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1015 | 1 peta square meter P(m2) | 1,000 Mm2 | Surface area of the white dwarf, Van Maanen's star |
7,600 Mm2 | Surface area of Neptune[91] | ||
1016 | 43,000 Mm2 | Surface area of Saturn[92] | |
61 000 Mm2 | Surface area of Jupiter,[93] the "surface" area of the spheroid (calculated from the mean radius as reported by NASA). The cross-sectional area of Jupiter, which is the same as the "circle" of Jupiter seen by an approaching spacecraft, is almost exactly one quarter the surface-area of the overall sphere, which in the case of Jupiter is approximately 1.535×1016 m2. | ||
1017 | 2-600 000 Mm2 | Surface area of the brown dwarf CT Chamaeleontis B. | |
460,000 Mm2 | Area swept by the Moon's orbit of Earth | ||
1018 | 1 square gigametre (Gm2) | 6.1 Gm2 | Surface area of the Sun[94] |
1019 | 30 Gm2 | Surface area of the star Vega | |
1020 | 100 Gm2 | ||
1021 | 1 zetta square meter Z(m2) | 1 000 Gm2 | |
1022 | 11 000 Gm2 | Area swept by Mercury's orbit around the Sun | |
37 000 Gm2 | Area swept by Venus' orbit around the Sun | ||
71 000 Gm2 | Area swept by Earth's orbit around the Sun | ||
1023 | 160 000 Gm2 | Area swept by Mars' orbit around the Sun | |
281 000 Gm2 | Surface area of a Dyson sphere with a radius of 1 AU | ||
1024 | 1 yotta square meter (m2)
1 square terametre (Tm2) |
1.9 Tm2 | Area swept by Jupiter's orbit around the Sun |
6.4 Tm2 | Area swept by Saturn's orbit around the Sun | ||
8.5 Tm2 | Surface area of the red supergiant star Betelgeuse | ||
1025 | 24 Tm2 | Surface area of the hypergiant star VY Canis Majoris | |
26 Tm2 | Area swept by Uranus' orbit around the Sun | ||
64 Tm2 | Area swept by Neptune's orbit around the Sun | ||
1026 | 110 Tm2 | Area swept by Pluto's orbit around the Sun |
Factor (m2) | Multiple | Value | Item |
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1030 | 1 square petametre (Pm2) | ||
1031 | 10 Pm2 | ||
1032 | 200 Pm2 | Roughly the surface area of an Oort Cloud | |
300 Pm2 | Roughly the surface area of a Bok globule | ||
1033 | 1 000 Pm2 | ||
1034 | 30 000 Pm2 | Roughly the surface area of The Bubble nebula | |
1035 | 100 000 Pm2 | ||
1036 | 1 square exametre (Em2) | ||
... | |||
1041 | 700 000 Em2 | Roughly the area of Milky Way's galactic disk | |
1042 | 1 square zettametre (Zm2) | ||
... | |||
1048 | 1 square yottametre (Ym2) | ||
1054 | 1 square ronnametre (Rm2) | 2.4 Rm2 | Surface area of the observable universe[95] |
The playing court is a rectangle measuring 18 x 9 m, surrounded by a free zone which is a minimum of 3 m wide on all sides.
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For the Olympics, fields are supposed to measure exactly 105 meters long and 68 meters wide
average length of the four sides is 230.364 meters
Floor area of 6.5 million square feet, 34 acres, 13.8 hectares, of which 3.7 million square feet are used for offices.
30,500 acres
498.29 square miles
30,065,000 sq km