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Comparison of 1 Square foot with some Imperial and metric units of area (detailed view)
The square foot (plural square feet; abbreviated ft² or sq ft) is an imperial unit and U.S. customary unit (non-SI, non-metric) of area, used mainly in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Bangladesh, India and Pakistan.[citation needed] It is defined as the area of a square with sides of 1 foot.
A symbol for square foot, square feet, and "per square foot" commonly used in architecture, real estate and interior space plans is a simple square with a vertical line bisecting it. It is also occasionally written as a square with a slash through it.[citation needed]
Conversions[edit]
1 square foot is equivalent to:
144 square inches (Sq In)
1/9 square yards (Sq Yd)
0.09290304 square metres (symbol: m²)
References[edit]
See also[edit]
1 E-1 m² for a comparison with other areas
Cubic foot
Orders of magnitude (area)
Conversion of units
Area (geometry)
Square (algebra), square root
Miscellaneous Technical (Unicode) for a list of miscellaneous technical symbols and fonts which support the square foot symbol
Categories: Units of areaImperial units
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