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About these units
Square Yard (yd²)
A square yard equals 9 square feet or 0.836 m². Historically used in the British Empire and still used in the US and UK for certain materials, the square yard appears frequently in carpeting, turf, paving stones, and textiles. Its intermediate size makes it suitable for areas larger than a square foot but smaller than a square meter, giving it usefulness in construction and home improvement. Although square meters have replaced square yards in most official contexts, industries such as carpeting, sports field design, and gardening continue to use this practical measure.
Square Meter (m²)
The square meter is the SI unit of area and represents the area of a square with sides exactly one meter in length. It is used universally across science, engineering, architecture, real estate, agriculture, and virtually every discipline that deals with two-dimensional space. Because it is derived directly from the meter, it connects seamlessly to other SI units for volume (m³), density (kg/m³), and pressure (Pa = N/m²). In practical contexts, square meters are used to describe the size of rooms, building floor plans, land plots, insulation coverage, and materials such as flooring and roofing. Its intuitive scale makes it ideal for medium-sized spaces. Smaller areas (such as mechanical components) use cm² or mm², while larger geographical spaces use hectares or square kilometers. The square meter's universality and coherence with the metric system make it one of the most important area units in global use.