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About these units
Are (a)
An are is a metric land unit equal to 100 m², originally invented during the development of the metric system but now largely overshadowed by the hectare (100 ares). Although rarely used independently in modern measurement, the are survives in real estate transactions in parts of Europe, where small land parcels—such as garden plots or rural homesteads—may be expressed in ares. It remains important historically, as it served as a transitional unit bridging the earliest metric innovations with modern large-scale land measurement practices.
Acre (ac)
An acre is a traditional Anglo-American land unit equal to 43,560 square feet, or roughly 4,047 m². It originated from medieval English farming, where an acre represented the amount of land a yoke of oxen could plow in one day—reflecting its deep agricultural roots. The acre remains widely used in the United States and the UK (in certain contexts), especially in real estate, agriculture, and land conservation. It is culturally intuitive for rural populations, where land plots have been measured in acres for centuries. The unit's longevity demonstrates how historical agricultural practices shaped modern land evaluation systems. Despite its lack of coherence with the metric system, the acre endures because of its cultural familiarity and long-standing legal integration.