This page is a progressive and labelled list of the SI area orders of magnitude, with certain examples appended to some list objects.
10 to 10 square metres
Factor (m) | Multiple | Value | Item |
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10 | 2.6×10 m | Planck area, | |
10 | 1 square quectometre | ||
10 | 1 square rontometre | ||
10 | 100 rm | 1 shed | |
10 | 1 square yoctometre (ym) | 1 ym | |
10 | 100,000 ym | 1 femtobarn | |
10 | 1 square zeptometre (zm) | 1 zm | |
10 | 1 square attometre (am) | 1 am | |
10 | 1 square femtometre (fm) | 1 fm | |
10 | 66.52 fm | Thomson cross-section of the electron | |
10 | 100 fm | 1 barn, roughly the cross-sectional area of a uranium nucleus | |
10 | 1 square picometre (pm) | 1 pm | |
10 | 1 square angstrom (Å) | 10,000 pm | |
10 | 100,000 pm | Area of a lipid bilayer, per molecule | |
75,000–260,000 pm | Surface area of the 20 standard amino acids | ||
10 | 1 square nanometre (nm) | 1 nm | |
10 | 100 nm | Globular proteins: solvent-accessible surface area of a typical globular protein, having a typical molecular mass of ~35000 u (quite variable) | |
10 | 17,000 nm | Cross-sectional area of a nuclear pore complex in vertebrates | |
10 | 1 square micrometre (μm) | 6 μm | Surface area of an E. coli bacterium |
10 | 100 μm | Surface area of a red blood cell | |
10 | 6,000–110,000 μm | Range of common LCD screen pixel sizes | |
7,000 μm | Area of a dot printed using 300 dots per inch resolution | ||
8,000 μm | Cross-sectional area of a straight human hair that is 100 μm in diameter |
10 to 10 square metres
Factor (m) | Multiple | Value | Item |
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10 | 55,000 μm | Size of a pixel on a typical modern computer display | |
10 | 2-400,000 μm | Cross-sectional area of a mechanical pencil lead (0.5-0.7 mm in diameter) | |
10 | 1 square millimetre (mm) | 1–2 mm | Area of a human fovea |
2 mm | Area of the head of a pin | ||
10 | 30–50 mm | Area of a 6–8 mm hole punched in a piece of paper by a hole punch | |
10 | 1 square centimetre (cm) | 290 mm | Area of one side of a U.S. penny |
500 mm | Area of a typical postage stamp | ||
10 | 1,100 mm | Area of a human retina | |
4,600 mm | Area of the face of a credit card | ||
4,800 mm | Largest side of a cigarette box | ||
10 | 1 square decimetre (dm) | 10,000 mm | Index card (3 × 5 inches) |
60,000 mm | American letter paper (11 × 8.5 inches, "A" size) | ||
62,370 mm | International A4 paper (210 × 297 mm) | ||
92,903 mm | 1 square foot | ||
10 | 125,000 mm | International A3 paper (297 × 420 mm) | |
180,000 mm | Surface area of a basketball (diameter 24 cm) | ||
250,000 mm | International A2 paper (420 × 594 mm) | ||
500,000 mm | International A1 paper (594 × 841 mm) |
10 to 10 square metres
Factor (m) | Multiple | Value | Item |
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10 | 1 square metre | 1 m | International A0 paper (841 × 1189 mm) |
1.73 m | A number commonly used as the average body surface area of a human | ||
1–4 m | Area of the top of an office desk | ||
10 | 10–20 m | A parking space | |
70 m | Approximate surface area of a human lung | ||
10 | 1 square decametre (dam) | 100 m | One are (a) |
162 m | Size of a volleyball court (18 × 9 metres) | ||
202 m | Floor area of a median suburban three-bedroom house in the US in 2010: 2,169 sq ft (201.5 m) | ||
261 m | Size of a tennis court | ||
437 m | Size of an NBA/WNBA/NCAA basketball court | ||
845 m | Wing area of Airbus A380, the largest commercial airliner | ||
978 m | Size of the primary mirror of the Extremely Large Telescope, the largest optical telescope in the world (under construction) | ||
10 | 1 kilo square meter k(m) | 1,000 m | Surface area of a modern stremma or dunam |
1,250 m | Surface area of the water in an Olympic-size swimming pool | ||
4,047 m | 1 acre | ||
5,400 m | Size of an American football field | ||
7,140 m | Size of a typical football (soccer) field | ||
10 | 1 square hectometre (hm) | 10,000 m | 1 hectare (ha) |
17,000 m | Approximate area of a cricket field (theoretical limits: 6,402 m to 21,273 m) | ||
22,100 m | Area of a Manhattan city block | ||
53,000 m | Base of the Great Pyramid of Giza | ||
10 | 195,000 m | Irish National Botanic Gardens | |
490,000 m | Vatican City | ||
600,000 m | Total floor area of the Pentagon | ||
659,611 m | Total floor area of Surat Diamond Bourse (largest office building) | ||
887,800 m | AvtoVAZ main assembly building, Tolyatti, Russia (largest building by footprint) | ||
10 | 1 mega square meter M(m)
1 square kilometre (km) |
1.76 km | New Century Global Center, Chengdu, China (largest building by total floor area) |
2 km | Monaco (country ranked 192nd by area) | ||
2.59 km | 1 square mile | ||
2.9 km | City of London (not all of modern London) | ||
10 | 59.5 km | Manhattan Island (land area) | |
61 km | San Marino |
10 to 10 square metres
Factor (m) | Multiple | Value | Item |
---|---|---|---|
10 | 105 km | Paris (inner city only) | |
110 km | Walt Disney World | ||
272 km | Taipei City | ||
630 km | Toronto | ||
10 | 1 giga square meter G(m) | 1,100 km | Hong Kong |
1,290 km | Los Angeles, California, United States (city) | ||
1,962 km | Jacksonville, Florida; largest city in the Continental US | ||
2,188 km | Tokyo | ||
3,130 km | Average area of an American county | ||
5,780 km | Administrative area of Bali | ||
8,030 km | Community of Madrid, Spain | ||
10 | 11,000 km | Jamaica | |
30,528 km | Belgium | ||
68,870 km | Lake Victoria | ||
84,000 km | Austria | ||
10 | 100,000 km | South Korea | |
167,996 km | Jiuquan in China | ||
232,000 km | Total area covered by underwater search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (including both 2014-2017 and 2018 searches) | ||
238,397 km | Romania | ||
301,338 km | Italy | ||
357,000 km | Germany | ||
377,900 km | Japan | ||
510,000 km | Spain | ||
780,000 km | Turkey | ||
10 | 1 tera square meter T(m)
1 square megametre (Mm) |
1.0 Mm | Egypt (country ranked 29th by area) |
2 Mm | Mexico | ||
3.10 Mm | Sakha (Yakutia) Republic in Russia (largest subnational governing body) | ||
3.28 Mm | India (country ranked 7th by area) | ||
5 Mm | Largest extent of the Roman Empire | ||
7.74 Mm | Australia (country ranked 6th by area) | ||
8.5 Mm | Brazil | ||
9.5 Mm | China/ United States of America | ||
10 | 10 Mm | Canada (including water) | |
14 Mm | Antarctica | ||
14 Mm | Arable land worldwide | ||
16.6 Mm | Surface area of Pluto | ||
17 Mm | Russia (country ranked 1st by area) | ||
24 Mm | Largest extent of Mongol Empire | ||
30 Mm | Africa | ||
35.5 Mm | Largest extent of the British Empire | ||
38 Mm | Surface area of the Moon | ||
44.6 Mm | Asia (largest continent by area) | ||
70.5 Mm | Indian Ocean | ||
85.1 Mm | Atlantic Ocean | ||
10 | 144 Mm | Surface area of Mars | |
150 Mm | Land area of Earth | ||
168.7 Mm | Pacific Ocean | ||
360 Mm | Water area of Earth | ||
510 Mm | Total surface area of Earth |
10 to 10 square metres
Factor (m) | Multiple | Value | Item |
---|---|---|---|
10 | 1 peta square meter P(m) | 1,000 Mm | Surface area of the white dwarf, Van Maanen's star |
7,600 Mm | Surface area of Neptune | ||
10 | 43,000 Mm | Surface area of Saturn | |
61 000 Mm | Surface area of Jupiter, the "surface" area of the spheroid (calculated from the mean radius as reported by NASA). The cross-sectional area of Jupiter, which is the same as the "circle" of Jupiter seen by an approaching spacecraft, is almost exactly one quarter the surface-area of the overall sphere, which in the case of Jupiter is approximately 1.535×10 m. | ||
10 | 2-600 000 Mm | Surface area of the brown dwarf CT Chamaeleontis B. | |
460,000 Mm | Area swept by the Moon's orbit of Earth | ||
10 | 1 square gigametre (Gm) | 6.1 Gm | Surface area of the Sun |
10 | 30 Gm | Surface area of the star Vega | |
10 | 100 Gm | ||
10 | 1 zetta square meter Z(m) | 1 000 Gm | |
10 | 11 000 Gm | Area swept by Mercury's orbit around the Sun | |
37 000 Gm | Area swept by Venus' orbit around the Sun | ||
71 000 Gm | Area swept by Earth's orbit around the Sun | ||
10 | 160 000 Gm | Area swept by Mars' orbit around the Sun | |
281 000 Gm | Surface area of a Dyson sphere with a radius of 1 AU | ||
10 | 1 yotta square meter (m)
1 square terametre (Tm) |
1.9 Tm | Area swept by Jupiter's orbit around the Sun |
6.4 Tm | Area swept by Saturn's orbit around the Sun | ||
8.5 Tm | Surface area of the red supergiant star Betelgeuse | ||
10 | 24 Tm | Surface area of the hypergiant star VY Canis Majoris | |
26 Tm | Area swept by Uranus' orbit around the Sun | ||
64 Tm | Area swept by Neptune's orbit around the Sun | ||
10 | 110 Tm | Area swept by Pluto's orbit around the Sun |
10 square metres and larger
Factor (m) | Multiple | Value | Item |
---|---|---|---|
10 | 1 square petametre (Pm) | ||
10 | 10 Pm | ||
10 | 200 Pm | Roughly the surface area of an Oort Cloud | |
300 Pm | Roughly the surface area of a Bok globule | ||
10 | 1 000 Pm | ||
10 | 30 000 Pm | Roughly the surface area of The Bubble nebula | |
10 | 100 000 Pm | ||
10 | 1 square exametre (Em) | ||
... | |||
10 | 700 000 Em | Roughly the area of Milky Way's galactic disk | |
10 | 1 square zettametre (Zm) | ||
... | |||
10 | 1 square yottametre (Ym) | ||
10 | 1 square ronnametre (Rm) | 2.4 Rm | Surface area of the observable universe |
See also
References
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- Calculated: (300 dots per inch / 2.54e-2 m/inch)^(-2) = 7.2e-9 m^2
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- Calculated: 100 μm in diameter => pi * ((1e-4 m)/2)**2 = 7.9e-9 m^2
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- Calculated: 50 m * 25 m = 1250 m^2
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4046.87
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- Calculated: 360 feet * 160 feet * (0.3048 m/ft)^2 = 5351 m^2 ~= 5400 m^2
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30,500 acres
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498.29 square miles
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30,065,000 sq km
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