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How to use the land area converter
- 1Enter the area and pick its unit.
- 2If the unit is bigha, select the state — bigha sizes are state-notified and differ widely.
- 3Read the full table of equivalents; every other unit is shown at once.
- 4For anything contractual, verify the traditional unit against the state's land records — the note below explains why.
Why Indian land units need their own converter
A generic unit converter knows acres and hectares; Indian property is bought in guntha, cent, gaj, kanal, marla, ground and bigha. The stable relationships are worth memorising: 40 guntha or 100 cent to the acre, 20 marla to the kanal and 8 kanal to the acre, 2,400 square feet to the Chennai ground, and 9 square feet to the gaj (square yard). This converter carries all of them at revenue-department values.
The acre itself is 43,560 square feet — a number that surfaces constantly in plot listings ('10 guntha' is 10,890 sq ft), and the hectare is the round 10,000 square metres that government records increasingly prefer. Everything here converts through square metres, so cross-conversions like guntha-to-cent are exact rather than chained approximations.
Which unit you meet depends on where you are buying: guntha in Maharashtra and Karnataka, cent in Kerala and Tamil Nadu, kanal and marla in Punjab and the north-west, ground around Chennai, gaj almost everywhere plots are small, and bigha across the entire northern belt — which is where the honesty problem starts.
The bigha problem, handled honestly
There is no such thing as 'a bigha'. Uttar Pradesh's pucca bigha is about 27,000 square feet; West Bengal's and Assam's is 14,400; Gujarat's 17,424; Madhya Pradesh's 12,000; and in Himachal and Uttarakhand five bighas make an acre, putting one at 8,712 square feet. A converter that shows one bigha value without saying whose is not converting — it is guessing on your behalf, with lakhs of rupees riding on the guess.
This page makes the state a required part of the question. Pick the region and the bigha row uses that state's commonly cited revenue figure, with the definition spelled out beside it. The spread is not academic: the same '2 bigha' plot is 54,000 square feet in Lucknow and 28,800 in Kolkata — nearly double.
Even within a state, older deeds sometimes use kachha bigha (typically a third of the pucca) or district variants. For a purchase, the number that governs is the one in the sale deed and the state's record of rights — use this converter to sanity-check listings and negotiate, and the patwari's records to close.
Reading property listings with the table
Listings mix units freely — '5.5 cent plot', '2 guntha 4 anna', 'plot area 167 gaj' — and comparing them requires a common denominator. Price per square foot is the market's own metric: convert each listing's area to square feet here, divide the asking price, and inflated plots reveal themselves immediately.
Agricultural land runs on acres and bighas, urban plots on gaj and square feet, government notifications on hectares — one transaction can touch all three vocabularies between the first listing and the registry. Keeping this table open while reading documents is the practical use it was built for.
The conversion itself runs in your browser, like everything on this site; the areas and, by implication, the deals you are weighing are never uploaded anywhere.
Frequently asked questions
How many square feet in a bigha?
It depends on the state — about 27,000 sq ft in UP, 27,225 in Rajasthan (pucca), 17,424 in Gujarat, 14,400 in West Bengal and Assam, 12,000 in MP, and 8,712 in Himachal/Uttarakhand. Pick the state in the converter and it uses that figure.
How many guntha in an acre?
Exactly 40 — one guntha is 121 square yards, about 1,089 square feet. It is the standard sub-acre unit in Maharashtra, Karnataka and Gujarat.
What is a cent of land?
One hundredth of an acre — 435.6 square feet — used across Kerala, Tamil Nadu and parts of Karnataka. '5 cent plot' is a little under 2,200 sq ft.
Is gaj the same as a square yard?
Yes — gaj (or gazam) is the customary name for the square yard: 9 square feet. '100 gaj plot' is 900 sq ft.
Can I rely on these values for a purchase?
For the fixed units, yes — they are exact. For bigha and older deeds, treat this as a strong sanity check and confirm against the state's land records, which is what a registry will use.