square yard
The square yard is an imperial/US customary (non-metric) unit of area, formerly used in most of the English-speaking world but now generally replaced by the square metre outside of the US. It is defined as the area of a square with sides of one yard (three feet, thirty-six inches, 0.9144 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
One square yard is equivalent to:
1,296 square inches
Nine 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
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