Acre
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The acre is a unit o area uised in the imperial an U.S. customar seestems. It is equivalent tae 43,560 square feet. An acre is aboot 40% o a hectare – slichtly smawer than an American fitbaa field.
The acre is commonly uised in the Unitit States, Antigua an Barbuda[1] American Samoa,[2] the Bahamas,[3] Belize,[4] the British Virgin Islands,[5] the Cayman Islands,[6] Dominica,[7] the Falkland Islands,[8] Grenada,[9] Guam,[10] the Northren Mariana Islands,[11] Indie, Jamaica,[12] Montserrat,[13] Myanmar, Pakistan, Samoa,[14] Saunt Lucia,[15] Saunt Helena,[16] Sauntt Kitts an Nevis,[17] Saunt Vincent an the Grenadines,[18] Turks and Caicos,[19] an the Unitit States Virgin Islands.[20] It is commonly uised in the Unitit Kinrick, Canadae an Australie, awtho the metric seestem is uised in legislation.
The internaitional seembol o the acre is ac, an is defined as 1/640 o a square mile. The maist commonly uised acre the day is the internaitional acre. In the Unitit States baith the internaitional acre an the slichtly different US survey acre are in uise. The maist common uise o the acre is tae measur tracts o land. Ane internaitional acre is defined as exactly 4046.8564224 square metres.
Durin the Middle Ages, a acre wis the amoont o land that coud be pleuched in ane day wi a yoke o oxen an measured bi ane chain in width (22 yards), an ane furlang, or 10 chains in lenth (220 yards), yieldin 4840 square yards.