Calculating land area is a crucial component of land use status surveys. However, different regions typically use different units for land area measurement, such as acres and mu (unit of land area). So, what is the conversion between acres and mu? Details are as follows:
What is the conversion between acres and mu?
An acre is a British and American unit of area, generally used in the UK, the US, and other regions. When converted to Chinese mu, one acre equals 6.0702846 mu.
What other units of measurement are there for land area?
1 square meter
Square meters is a metric unit of area, defined as the area of a square with a side length of 1 meter, denoted as m² .
2. square kilometers
It is defined as the area of a square with a side length of 1 kilometer, and is also a unit for measuring land, with the symbol km 2 .
3 hectares
A hectare is represented by hm² , where hm represents 100 meters. hm² means the square of 100 meters, and is defined as the area of a square with sides of 100 meters, which is 10,000 square meters.
4.1,000 mu
One thousand mu is an ancient unit of measurement originating from ancient Chinese. It is used to measure the area of land. In ancient times, the size of one thousand mu might have varied from region to region, but over the years, it has been standardized to 15 mu, meaning 15 mu equals one thousand mu.
5. areles
The unit of area, denoted by the letter "are," is the same as the hectare in the metric system. Typically, 1 hectare = 10,000 square meters = 100 areles = 15 mu (a unit of land area in China).
6. City Mu
The *shi mu* is the main unit of land area in the *shi* system, equal to sixty square *shi zhang*. The *shi mu* is widely used in agricultural production and is what farmers often refer to as *mu*, commonly known as *mu*.
7. 垧
A hectare is a unit of land area used in northern my country. Its size varies from place to place. In the Northeast, it is equivalent to 15 mu, while in the Northwest, it is equivalent to 3 or 5 mu.
