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Revision as of 11:28, 19 August 2005 by Zero0000 (talk | contribs) (more about the history of the unit)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)A dunam (or dönüm, dunum) was a unit of area used in the Ottoman empire for specifying the extent of land. It equalled approximately 919.3 square metres. During the British Mandate of Palestine, it was replaced by a metric dunam equal to exactly 1000 square meters. Land area in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza Strip is still measured in metric dunams.
A (metric) dunam is equal to:
- exactly 1000 square metre
- exactly 0.1 hectare
- exactly 0.001 square kilometre
- about 0.2471 of an acre
- about 1196 square yards
- about 10,760 square feet