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Orders of magnitude (area)

Comparison of a wide range of areas

Comparison of a wide range of areas

This page is a progressive and labelled list of the SI area orders of magnitude, with certain examples appended to some list objects.

{{10^|-70}} to {{10^|-9}} square metres

Factor (m2)MultipleValueItem
2.6 m2Planck area, \frac{G \hbar}{c^3}
1 square quectometre
1 square rontometre
100 rm21 shed{{cite web
1 square yoctometre (ym2)1 ym2
100,000 ym21 femtobarn
10−421 square zeptometre (zm2)1 zm2
10−361 square attometre (am2)1 am2
10−301 square femtometre (fm2)1 fm2
10−2966.52 fm2Thomson cross-section of the electron
10−28100 fm21 barn, roughly the cross-sectional area of a uranium nucleus
10−241 square picometre (pm2)1 pm2
10−201 square angstrom (Å2)10,000 pm2
10−19100,000 pm2Area of a lipid bilayer, per molecule
75,000–260,000 pm2Surface area of the 20 standard amino acids
10−181 square nanometre (nm2)1 nm2
10−16100 nm2last1 = Janinfirst1 = J. E. L.title = Surface and inside volumes in globular proteinsjournal = Naturevolume = 277issue = 5696pages = 491–492year = 1979pmid = 763335doi = 10.1038/277491a0bibcode = 1979Natur.277..491Js2cid = 4338901 }}
10−1417,000 nm2Cross-sectional area of a nuclear pore complex in vertebrates area = pi * (145e-9 / 2)^2 = 1.65e-14 m^2 --
10−121 square micrometre (μm2)6 μm2Surface area of an *E. coli* bacterium
10−10100 μm2Surface area of a red blood cell
10−96,000–110,000 μm2Range of common LCD screen pixel sizes
7,000 μm2Area of a dot printed using 300 dots per inch resolution
8,000 μm2Cross-sectional area of a straight human hair that is 100 μm in diameter

10−8 to 10−1 square metres

Factor (m2)MultipleValueItem
10−855,000 μm2Size of a pixel on a typical modern computer display
10−72-400,000 μm2Cross-sectional area of a mechanical pencil lead (0.5-0.7 mm in diameter)
10−61 square millimetre (mm2)1–2 mm2Area of a human fovea
2 mm2Area of the head of a pin
10−530–50 mm2Area of a 6–8 mm hole punched in a piece of paper by a hole punch
10−41 square centimetre (cm2)290 mm2Area of one side of a U.S. penny
500 mm2Area of a typical postage stamp
10−31,100 mm2Area of a human retina
4,600 mm2Area of the face of a credit card
10−21 square decimetre (dm2)10,000 mm2Index card (3 × 5 inches)
60,000 mm2American letter paper (11 × 8.5 inches, "A" size)
62,370 mm2International A4 paper (210 × 297 mm)
92,903 mm21 square foot
10−1125,000 mm2International A3 paper (297 × 420 mm)
180,000 mm2Surface area of a basketball (diameter 24 cm)
250,000 mm2International A2 paper (420 × 594 mm)
500,000 mm2International A1 paper (594 × 841 mm)

100 to 107 square metres

Factor (m2)MultipleValueItem
1001 square metre1 m2International A0 paper (841 × 1189 mm)
1.73 m2A number commonly used as the average body surface area of a human
1–4 m2Area of the top of an office desk
10110–20 m2A parking space
70 m2Approximate surface area of a human lung
1021 square decametre (dam2)100 m2One are (a)
162 m2Size of a volleyball court (18 × 9 metres)
202 m2Floor area of a median suburban three-bedroom house in the US in 2010: 2169 sqft
261 m2Size of a tennis court
437 m2Size of an NBA/WNBA/NCAA basketball court
845 m2Wing area of Airbus A380, the largest commercial airliner
978 m2Size of the primary mirror of the Extremely Large Telescope, the largest optical telescope in the world (under construction)
1031 kilo square meter k(m2)1,000 m2Surface area of a modern stremma or dunam
1,250 m2Surface area of the water in an Olympic-size swimming pool
4,047 m21 acre
5,400 m2Size of an American football field
7,140 m2Size of a typical football (soccer) field
1041 square hectometre (hm2)10,000 m21 hectare (ha)
17,000 m2url=http://passyworldofmathematics.com/afl-ground-sizes/publisher=passyworldofmathematics.comtitle=AFL Ground Sizes | Passy's World of Mathematicsdate=11 September 2011access-date=2016-11-12}}
22,100 m2Area of a Manhattan city block
53,000 m2Base of the Great Pyramid of Giza
105195,000 m2Irish National Botanic Gardens
490,000 m2Vatican City
600,000 m2Total floor area of the Pentagon
659,611 m2Total floor area of Surat Diamond Bourse (largest office building)
887,800 m2AvtoVAZ main assembly building, Tolyatti, Russia (largest building by footprint)
1061 mega square meter M(m2)1.76 km2New Century Global Center, Chengdu, China (largest building by total floor area)
2 km2Monaco (country ranked 192nd by area)
2.59 km21 square mile
2.9 km2City of London (not all of modern London)
10759.5 km2Manhattan Island (land area)
61 km2San Marino

108 to 1014 square metres

Factor (m2)MultipleValueItem
108105 km2Paris (inner city only){{cite webtitle=Comparateur de territoire: Commune de Paris (75056)
110 km2Walt Disney World
272 km2Taipei City
630 km2Toronto
1091 giga square meter G(m2)1,100 km2Hong Kong
1,290 km2Los Angeles, California, United States (city)
1,962 km2Jacksonville, Florida; largest city in the Continental US
2,188 km2Tokyo
3,130 km2Average area of an American county
5,780 km2Administrative area of Bali
8,030 km2Community of Madrid, Spain
101011,000 km2Jamaica
30,528 km2Belgium
68,870 km2Lake Victoria
84,000 km2Austria
1011100,000 km2South Korea
167,996 km2Jiuquan in China
232,000 km2Total area covered by underwater search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (including both 2014-2017 and 2018 searches)
238,397 km2Romania
301,338 km2Italy
357,000 km2Germany
377,900 km2Japan
510,000 km2Spain
780,000 km2Turkey
10121 tera square meter T(m2)1.0 million km2Egypt (country ranked 29th by area)
2 million km2Mexico
3.10 million km2Sakha (Yakutia) Republic in Russia (largest subnational governing body)
3.28 million km2India (country ranked 7th by area)
5 million km2last2=Adamsfirst2=Jonathan M.last3=Hallfirst3=Thomas Ddate=December 2006title=East-West Orientation of Historical Empiresurl=http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jwsr/article/view/369/381journal=Journal of World-Systems Researchvolume=12issue=2page=222issn=1076-156Xlast1=Turchinfirst1=Peteraccess-date=2016-09-16}}
7.74 million km2Australia (country ranked 6th by area)
8.5 million km2Brazil
9.5 million km2China/ United States of America
101310 million km2Canada (including water)
14 million km2Antarctica
14 million km2title=FAO Resources pageyear=2010publisher=FAO.orgurl=http://www.fao.org/economic/ess/ess-publications/ess-yearbook/ess-yearbook2010/yearbook2010-reources/en/}}
16.6 million km2Surface area of Pluto
17 million km2Russia (country ranked 1st by area)
24 million km2Largest extent of Mongol Empire
30 million km2Africa
35.5 million km2date=September 1997title=Expansion and Contraction Patterns of Large Polities: Context for Russiajstor=2600793journal=International Studies Quarterlyvolume=41issue=3page=502doi=10.1111/0020-8833.00053author=Rein Taageperaauthor-link=Rein Taageperaurl=https://escholarship.org/content/qt3cn68807/qt3cn68807.pdf?t=otc3in}}
38 million km2Surface area of the Moon
44.6 million km2Asia (largest continent by area)
70.5 million km2Indian Ocean
85.1 million km2Atlantic Ocean
1014144 million km2Surface area of Mars
150 million km2title = The World Factbook: Worlddate= 2011-08-31url = https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/world/publisher = Central Intelligence Agencyaccess-date = 2011-09-27 }}
168.7 million km2Pacific Ocean
360 million km2Water area of Earth
510 million km2Total surface area of Earth

1015 to 1026 square metres

Factor (m2)MultipleValueItem
10151 peta square meter P(m2)1,000 million km2Surface area of the white dwarf, Van Maanen's star
7,600 million km2Surface area of Neptune
101643,000 million km2Surface area of Saturn
61 000 million km2Surface 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 m2.
10172-600 000 million km2Surface area of the brown dwarf CT Chamaeleontis B.
460,000 million km2Area swept by the Moon's orbit of Earth
10181 square gigametre (Gm2)6.1 trillion km2Surface area of the Sun
101930 trillion km2Surface area of the star Vega
1020100 trillion km2
10211 zetta square meter Z(m2)1 000 trillion km2
102211,000 trillion km2Area swept by Mercury's orbit around the Sun
37,000 trillion km2Area swept by Venus' orbit around the Sun
71,000 trillion km2Area swept by Earth's orbit around the Sun
1023160,000 trillion km2Area swept by Mars' orbit around the Sun
281,000 trillion km2Surface area of a Dyson sphere with a radius of 1 AU
10241 yotta square meter (m2)1.9 quintillion km2Area swept by Jupiter's orbit around the Sun
6.4 quintillion km2Area swept by Saturn's orbit around the Sun
8.5 quintillion km2Surface area of the red supergiant star Betelgeuse
102524 quintillion km2Surface area of the hypergiant star VY Canis Majoris
26 quintillion km2Area swept by Uranus' orbit around the Sun
64 quintillion km2Area swept by Neptune's orbit around the Sun
1026110 quintillion km2Area swept by Pluto's orbit around the Sun area = 1.061e26 m^2 ~= 1.1e26 m^2--

1027 square metres and larger

Factor (m2)MultipleValueItem
10301 square petametre (Pm2)
103110 Pm2
1032200 Pm2Roughly the surface area of the Oort Cloud
300 Pm2Roughly the surface area of a Bok globule
10331 000 Pm2
103430 000 Pm2Roughly the surface area of The Bubble nebula
1035100 000 Pm2
10361 square exametre (Em2)
...
1041700 000 Em2Roughly the area of Milky Way's galactic disk
10421 square zettametre (Zm2)
...
10481 square yottametre (Ym2)
10541 square ronnametre (Rm2)2.4 Rm2Surface area of the observable universe{{Cite web

References

References

  1. Calculated: square of the [[Planck length]] = (1.62e-35 m)^2 = 2.6e-70 m^2
  2. "Femtobarn". [[CERN]].
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  6. "Individual Properties of the 20 Standard Amino Acids: Properties and Images". Jena Library of Biological Macromolecules.
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  8. "The Nuclear Pore Complex". UIUC Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group.
  9. "E. coli Statistics". The [[CyberCell]] Database.
  10. (2005). "Thermal Fluctuations of Red Blood Cell Membrane via a Constant-Area Particle-Dynamics Model". Biophysical Journal.
  11. Calculated: [[Dot pitch#Common dot pitches in monitors
  12. Calculated: (300 dots per inch / 2.54e-2 m/inch)^(-2) = 7.2e-9 m^2
  13. "Hair Fiber Composition".
  14. Calculated: 100 μm in diameter => pi * ((1e-4 m)/2)**2 = 7.9e-9 m^2
  15. Calculated: pi * (0.5mm/2)^2 = 2.0e-7 m^2 and pi * (0.7mm/2)^2 = 3.8e-7 m^2)
  16. "Part XIII: Facts and Figures concerning the human retina". University of Utah.
  17. Calculated: ((6e-3 m)/2)**2 * pi = 2.8e-5 m^2 and ((8e-3 m)/2)**2 * pi = 5.0e-5 m^2
  18. "Coin specifications". United States Mint.
  19. Calculated: area = pi * diameter^2 / 4 = 3.14 * (19.05e-3 m)^2 = 2.850e-4 m^2
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  22. Calculated: 3 inches * 5 inches * (2.54e-2 m/inch)^2 = 9.7e-3 m^2 ~= 0.01 m^2
  23. Calculated: 1 foot * 1 foot * (0.3048 meters / foot)^2 = 0.092.90304 m^2
  24. "Rules of the Game". USA Basketball.
  25. Calculated: 29.5-29.75 inch circumference * 2.54 cm / in = 23.85-24.05 cm diameter => radius = 0.119-0.120 m => Area = 4 * pi * (0.119 m)^2 = 0.18 m^2
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  31. Calculated: 4,700 sq ft * (0.3048 ft/m)2 = 436.644288 m2
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  34. Calculated: 50 m * 25 m = 1250 m^2
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  37. Calculated: 360 feet * 160 feet * (0.3048 m/ft)^2 = 5351 m^2 ~= 5400 m^2
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  39. Calculated: 105 m * 68 m = 7140 m^2
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  43. Calculated: 230.364 m^2 ~= 53068 m^2
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  49. Calculated: 1 mile * 1 mile * (1.61 km / mile)^2 = 2.59 km^2
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  51. "New York -- Place and County Subdivision: Population, Housing Units, Area, and Density 2000". US Census Bureau.
  52. "San Marino". Central Intelligence Agency.
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  61. "Jamaica". Central Intelligence Agency.
  62. "Lake Profile: Victoria". LakeNet.
  63. "Austria". Central Intelligence Agency.
  64. "South Korea". Central Intelligence Agency.
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  66. "Italy". Central Intelligence Agency.
  67. "Germany". Central Intelligence Agency.
  68. "Japan". Central Intelligence Agency.
  69. "Spain". Central Intelligence Agency.
  70. "Turkey". Central Intelligence Agency.
  71. "Egypt". Central Intelligence Agency.
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  76. "Canada". Central Intelligence Agency.
  77. "Antarctica". Central Intelligence Agency.
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  80. "Russia". Central Intelligence Agency.
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  85. (2011-03-24). "The World Factbook: Atlantic Ocean". Central Intelligence Agency.
  86. "Mars: Facts & Figures". NASA.
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  88. (2011-11-17). "The World Factbook: Pacific Ocean". Central Intelligence Agency.
  89. "Neptune: Facts & Figures". NASA.
  90. "Saturn: Facts & Figures". NASA.
  91. "Jupiter: Facts & Figures". NASA.
  92. "Sun: Facts & Figures". NASA.
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