Square yard

The square yard is an Imperial unit (non-SI non-metric) of area, used in the United States. It is defined as the area of a square with sides of 1 yard (3 feet, 36 inches, 0.1414 metres) in length.

Symbols

There is no universally agreed symbol but the following are used:

• square yards, square yard, square yds, square yd
• sq yards, sq yard, sq yds, sq yd
• yards/-2, yard/-2, yds/-2, yd/-2
• yards^2, yard^2, yds^2, yd^2
• yards², yard², yds², yd²

Conversions

1 square yard is equivalent to:

• 1 296 square inches
• 9 square feet
• ≈0.00020661157 acres
• ≈0.000000322830579 square miles
• ≈836 127.36 square millimetres
• ≈8 361.2736 square centimetres
• ≈0.83612736 square metres
• ≈0.00000083612736 square kilometres

See also

• 1 E-1 m² for a comparison with other areas
• Cubic yard
• Orders of magnitude (area)
• Conversion of units
• Area (geometry)
• Square (algebra), Square root