The hectare is a metric unit of land-area measurement that originated in France in the 1800's. A hectare is equal to 2.471 acres. A hectare also is equal to 10,000 square meters. If you are dealing with land measurements or if you are studying measurements in a math class, you may need to be able to convert between hectares and meters.
Write down the number of hectares you wish to convert to meters.
Multiply the number of hectares times 10,000. For instance, if you have seven hectares, multiply 7 times 10,000 to get 70,000.
State your answer in "meters squared" or "square meters" since there are 10,000 square meters in every hectare. In this example, your final answer would be 70,000 square meters.
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