List of orders of magnitude for area
Factor (m2) |
Multiple |
Value |
Item |
10−70 |
|
2.61×10−70 m2 |
the Planck area, |
... |
10−52 |
|
10−52 m2 |
1 shed |
... |
10−30 |
1 square femtometre (fm2) |
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10−28 |
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10−28 m2 |
1 barn, roughly the cross-sectional area of an uranium nucleus |
10−24 |
1 square picometre (pm2) |
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10−20 |
1 square ångström (Å2) |
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10−18 |
1 square nanometre (nm2) |
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10−12 |
1 square micrometre (μm2) |
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... |
10−8 |
|
0.055 mm2 |
Size of a pixel on a typical modern computer display |
10−7 |
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10−6 |
1 square millimetre (mm2) |
2 mm2 |
Area of the head of a pin |
10−5 |
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10−4 |
1 square centimetre (cm2) |
5 cm2 |
Area of a typical postage stamp |
10−3 |
|
48 cm2 |
Largest side of a cigarette box |
10−2 |
1 square decimetre (dm2) |
0.060 m2 |
American letter paper (11 × 8.5 inches, "A" size) |
0.0625 m2 |
International A4 paper (210 × 297 mm) |
0.093 m2 |
1 square foot |
10−1 |
|
0.125 m2 |
International A3 paper (297 × 420 mm) |
0.181 m2 |
Surface area of a basketball (diameter 24 cm) |
0.250 m2 |
International A2 paper (420 × 594 mm) |
0.500 m2 |
International A1 paper (594 × 841 mm) |
100 |
1 square metre |
1 m2 |
International A0 paper (841 × 1189 mm) |
2–4 m2 |
Area of the top of an office desk |
101 |
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10–20 m2 |
A parking space |
102 |
1 square decametre (dam2) |
100 m2 |
One are (a) |
162 m2 |
Size of a volleyball field (9 × 18 metres) |
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186 m2 |
2000 square feet, the floor area of a typical suburban three-bedroom house in North America |
103 |
|
4,047 m2 |
1 acre |
5,400 m2 |
Size of an American football field |
7,300 m2 |
Size of a football (soccer) field |
104 |
1 square hectometre (hm2) |
10 000 m2 |
1 hectare (ha) |
55 000 m2 |
Base of the Great Pyramid of Giza (5.5 ha) |
105 |
|
190 000 m2 |
Irish National Botanic Gardens |
440 000 m2 |
Vatican City |
620 000 m2 |
Total floor area of the Pentagon |
106 |
1 square kilometre (km2) |
1.95 km2 |
Monaco (country ranked 192nd by area) |
2.59 km2 |
1 square mile |
2.9 km2 |
City of London (not all of modern London) |
107 |
|
59.5 km2 |
Manhattan Island |
61 km2 |
San Marino |
108 |
|
105 km2 |
Paris |
122 km2 |
Walt Disney World |
272 km2 |
Taipei City |
641 km2 |
Toronto |
109 |
|
1092 km2 |
Hong Kong |
1290 km2 |
Los Angeles, California, USA |
2187 km2 |
Tokyo |
5700 km2 |
Bali |
8028 km2 |
Community of Madrid, Spain |
1010 |
|
10,991 km2 |
Jamaica |
68,870 km2 |
Lake Victoria |
83,858 km2 |
Austria |
1011 |
|
103,000 km2 |
Iceland |
301,230 km2 |
Italy |
504,782 km2 |
Spain |
780,580 km2 |
Turkey |
1012 |
1 square megametre (Mm2) =
1 million km2 |
1.00 Mm2 |
Egypt (country ranked 29th by area) |
7.69 Mm2 |
Australia (country ranked 6th by area) |
9 Mm2 |
Largest extent of the Roman Empire |
1013 |
|
10 Mm2 |
Canada (including water) |
17 Mm2 |
Russia (country ranked 1st by area) |
30 Mm2 |
Africa |
36 Mm2 |
Largest extent of the British Empire |
38 Mm2 |
Surface area of the Moon |
77 Mm2 |
Atlantic Ocean |
1014 |
|
144 Mm2 |
Surface area of Mars |
150 Mm2 |
Land area of Earth |
360 Mm2 |
Water area of Earth |
510 Mm2 |
Total surface area of Earth |
1015 |
|
7,700 Mm2 |
Neptune |
1016 |
|
44,000 Mm2 |
Saturn |
64,000 Mm2 |
Jupiter |
1017 |
|
4.6×1017 m2 |
Area swept by the Moon's orbit of Earth |
1018 |
1 square gigametre (Gm2) |
6.1×1018 m2 |
Surface area of the Sun |
1019 |
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1020 |
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1021 |
|
1.5×1021 m2 |
Surface area of a Ringworld with a radius of 1 AU and width of 1.6 Gm |
1022 |
|
1.1×1022 m2 |
Area swept by Mercury's orbit around the Sun |
3.7×1022 m2 |
Area swept by Venus' orbit around the Sun |
7.1×1022 m2 |
Area swept by Earth's orbit around the Sun |
1023 |
|
1.6×1023 m2 |
Area swept by Mars' orbit around the Sun |
2.81×1023 m2 |
Surface area of a Dyson sphere with a radius of 1 AU |
1024 |
1 square terametre (Tm2) |
1.9×1024 m2 |
Area swept by Jupiter's orbit around the Sun |
6.4×1024 m2 |
Area swept by Saturn's orbit around the Sun |
1025 |
|
2.6×1025 m2 |
Area swept by Uranus' orbit around the Sun |
6.4×1025 m2 |
Area swept by Neptune's orbit around the Sun |
1026 |
|
1.1×1026 m2 |
Area swept by Pluto's orbit around the Sun |
... |
1041 |
|
7×1041 m2 |
Roughly the area of Milky Way's galactic disk |