One square kilometer is exactly 100 hectares. A square kilometer is 1,000 by 1,000 meters and a hectare is 100 by 100 meters, so ten hectares fit along each side and 10 × 10 = 100. Multiply square kilometers by 100 to get hectares. Planners, foresters and statisticians use this direction when a regional figure has to be broken down to the scale of fields and parcels.
Formula
Square Kilometers to Hectares conversion table
| Square Kilometers | Hectares |
|---|---|
| 0.25 km² | 25 ha |
| 0.5 km² | 50 ha |
| 1 km² | 100 ha |
| 2 km² | 200 ha |
| 3 km² | 300 ha |
| 4 km² | 400 ha |
| 5 km² | 500 ha |
| 6 km² | 600 ha |
| 7 km² | 700 ha |
| 8 km² | 800 ha |
| 9 km² | 900 ha |
| 10 km² | 1,000 ha |
| 15 km² | 1,500 ha |
| 20 km² | 2,000 ha |
| 25 km² | 2,500 ha |
| 30 km² | 3,000 ha |
| 40 km² | 4,000 ha |
| 50 km² | 5,000 ha |
| 60 km² | 6,000 ha |
| 70 km² | 7,000 ha |
| 75 km² | 7,500 ha |
| 80 km² | 8,000 ha |
| 90 km² | 9,000 ha |
| 100 km² | 10,000 ha |
| 250 km² | 25,000 ha |
| 500 km² | 50,000 ha |
| 1,000 km² | 100,000 ha |
Where you’ll use it
National and regional statistics often state land cover, forest area or municipal area in square kilometers, while farm, forestry and land-use records work in hectares. A 3.5 km² municipality contains 350 hectares; a 12 km² forest is 1,200 hectares. Environmental impact assessments and land-use plans regularly switch between the two when they move from the overview map to individual parcels.
Tip: It is 100, not 1,000. The prefixes are misleading here: kilo- means a thousand meters in length, but squared it means a million square meters, and a hectare is ten thousand.