Convert Square Feet to Bigha

Square foot and its plural, Square feet is a commonly used unit of area measurement in many countries like India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Ghana, Liberia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Hong Kong, the United, and some places in Canada. It is not an SI unit but hugely popular in these countries. Square foot is defined as the area of a square with sides of 1 foot or in simple terms it is the area enclosed in a square that is 12 inches or 30.5 cm on each side. One Square foot is equal to 0.092 Square meters. It is usually used to denote the area of an apartment or room in real estate terminology. A land unit conversion calculator can be used to convert the Square foot to other units of area measurement....Read More

Bigha is one of the most popular land measurement units, used in various parts of India. The usage of Bigha as a land measurement unit is common in Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh, Bihar, West Bengal and Assam. However, there is some regional variation in the measurement since no standard size is attached to it. For instance, 1 Bigha in Assam is equal to 14,400 sq ft whereas 1 Bigha in Punjab is equal to 9,070 sq ft. There are two types of Bigha- Pucca and Kuccha. While the Puccha Bigha is most widely used for sizing plots and large tracts of land parcels, Kuccha Bigha is used in some rural parts of India, to deal with the tenancy. Bigha is also used in some neighbouring countries such as Bangladesh, Nepal and Fiji but there is no ‘standardization’ that is internationally accepted....Read More