10−70 to 10−9 square metres
List of orders of magnitude for area 10−70 to 10−9 square metres Factor (m2) | Multiple | Value | Item |
10−70 | | 2.6×10−70 m2 | Planck area, |
10−60 | 1 square quectometre |
10−54 | 1 square rontometre |
10−52 | | 100 rm2 | 1 shed |
10−48 | 1 square yoctometre (ym2) | 1 ym2 | |
10−43 | | 100,000 ym2 | 1 femtobarn |
10−42 | 1 square zeptometre (zm2) | 1 zm2 | |
10−36 | 1 square attometre (am2) | 1 am2 | |
10−30 | 1 square femtometre (fm2) | 1 fm2 | |
10−29 | | 66.52 fm2 | Thomson cross-section of the electron |
10−28 | | 100 fm2 | 1 barn, roughly the cross-sectional area of a uranium nucleus |
10−24 | 1 square picometre (pm2) | 1 pm2 | |
10−20 | 1 square angstrom (Å2) | 10,000 pm2 | |
10−19 | | 100,000 pm2 | Area of a lipid bilayer, per molecule |
| 75,000–260,000 pm2 | Surface area of the 20 standard amino acids |
10−18 | 1 square nanometre (nm2) | 1 nm2 | |
10−16 | | 100 nm2 | Globular proteins: solvent-accessible surface area of a typical globular protein, having a typical molecular mass of ~35000 u (quite variable) |
10−14 | | 17,000 nm2 | Cross-sectional area of a nuclear pore complex in vertebrates |
10−12 | 1 square micrometre (μm2) | 6 μm2 | Surface area of an E. coli bacterium |
10−10 | | 100 μm2 | Surface area of a red blood cell |
10−9 | | 6,000–110,000 μm2 | Range of common LCD screen pixel sizes |
| 7,000 μm2 | Area of a dot printed using 300 dots per inch resolution |
| 8,000 μm2 | Cross-sectional area of a straight human hair that is 100 μm in diameter |
10−8 to 10−1 square metres
List of orders of magnitude for areas 10−8 to 10−1 square metres Factor (m2) | Multiple | Value | Item |
10−8 | | 55,000 μm2 | Size of a pixel on a typical modern computer display |
10−7 | | 2-400,000 μm2 | Cross-sectional area of a mechanical pencil lead (0.5-0.7 mm in diameter) |
10−6 | 1 square millimetre (mm2) | 1–2 mm2 | Area of a human fovea |
2 mm2 | Area of the head of a pin |
10−5 | | 30–50 mm2 | Area of a 6–8 mm hole punched in a piece of paper by a hole punch |
10−4 | 1 square centimetre (cm2) | 290 mm2 | Area of one side of a U.S. penny |
500 mm2 | Area of a typical postage stamp |
10−3 | | 1,100 mm2 | Area of a human retina |
4,600 mm2 | Area of the face of a credit card |
4,800 mm2 | Largest side of a cigarette box |
10−2 | 1 square decimetre (dm2) | 10,000 mm2 | Index card (3 × 5 inches) |
60,000 mm2 | American letter paper (11 × 8.5 inches, "A" size) |
62,370 mm2 | International A4 paper (210 × 297 mm) |
92,903 mm2 | 1 square foot |
10−1 | | 125,000 mm2 | International A3 paper (297 × 420 mm) |
180,000 mm2 | Surface area of a basketball (diameter 24 cm) |
250,000 mm2 | International A2 paper (420 × 594 mm) |
500,000 mm2 | International A1 paper (594 × 841 mm) |
100 to 107 square metres
List of orders of magnitude for areas 100 to 107 square metres. Factor (m2) | Multiple | Value | Item |
100 | 1 square metre | 1 m2 | International A0 paper (841 × 1189 mm) |
1.73 m2 | A number commonly used as the average body surface area of a human |
1–4 m2 | Area of the top of an office desk |
101 | | 10–20 m2 | A parking space |
70 m2 | Approximate surface area of a human lung |
102 | 1 square decametre (dam2) | 100 m2 | One are (a) |
162 m2 | Size of a volleyball court (18 × 9 metres) |
202 m2 | Floor area of a median suburban three-bedroom house in the US in 2010: 2,169 sq ft (201.5 m2) |
261 m2 | Size of a tennis court |
437 m2 | Size of an NBA/WNBA/NCAA basketball court |
845 m2 | Wing area of Airbus A380, the largest commercial airliner |
978 m2 | Size of the primary mirror of the Extremely Large Telescope, the largest optical telescope in the world (under construction) |
103 | 1 kilo square meter k(m2) | 1,000 m2 | Surface area of a modern stremma or dunam |
1,250 m2 | Surface area of the water in an Olympic-size swimming pool |
4,047 m2 | 1 acre |
5,400 m2 | Size of an American football field |
7,140 m2 | Size of a typical football (soccer) field |
104 | 1 square hectometre (hm2) | 10,000 m2 | 1 hectare (ha) |
17,000 m2 | Approximate area of a cricket field (theoretical limits: 6,402 m2 to 21,273 m2) |
22,100 m2 | Area of a Manhattan city block |
53,000 m2 | Base of the Great Pyramid of Giza |
105 | | 195,000 m2 | Irish National Botanic Gardens |
490,000 m2 | Vatican City |
600,000 m2 | Total floor area of the Pentagon |
887,800 m2 | AvtoVAZ main assembly building, Tolyatti, Russia (largest building by footprint) |
106 | 1 mega square meter M(m2) 1 square kilometre (km2) | 1.76 km2 | New Century Global Center, Chengdu, China (largest building by total floor area) |
2 km2 | Monaco (country ranked 192nd by area) |
2.59 km2 | 1 square mile |
2.9 km2 | City of London (not all of modern London) |
107 | | 59.5 km2 | Manhattan Island (land area) |
61 km2 | San Marino |
108 to 1014 square metres
Factor (m2) | Multiple | Value | Item |
108 | | 105 km2 | Paris (inner city only) |
110 km2 | Walt Disney World |
272 km2 | Taipei City |
630 km2 | Toronto |
109 | 1 giga square meter G(m2) | 1100 km2 | Hong Kong |
1290 km2 | Los Angeles, California, United States (city) |
1962 km2 | Jacksonville, Florida; largest city in the Continental US |
2188 km2 | Tokyo |
3,130 km2 | Average area of an American county |
5780 km2 | Administrative area of Bali |
8030 km2 | Community of Madrid, Spain |
1010 | | 11,000 km2 | Jamaica |
30,528 km2 | Belgium |
68,870 km2 | Lake Victoria |
84,000 km2 | Austria |
1011 | | 100,000 km2 | South Korea |
167,996 km2 | Jiuquan in China |
232,000 km2 | Total area covered by underwater search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (including both 2014-2017 and 2018 searches) |
238,397 | Romania |
301,338 km2 | Italy |
357,000 km2 | Germany |
377,900 km2 | Japan |
510,000 km2 | Spain |
780,000 km2 | Turkey |
1012 | 1 tera square meter T(m2) 1 square megametre (Mm2) | 1.0 Mm2 | Egypt (country ranked 29th by area) |
2 Mm2 | Mexico |
3.10 Mm2 | Sakha (Yakutia) Republic in Russia (largest subnational governing body) |
5 Mm2 | Largest extent of the Roman Empire |
7.74 Mm2 | Australia (country ranked 6th by area) |
8.5 Mm2 | Brazil |
9.5 Mm2 | China/ United States of America |
1013 | | 10 Mm2 | Canada (including water) |
14 Mm2 | Antarctica |
14 Mm2 | Arable land worldwide |
16.6 Mm2 | Surface area of Pluto |
17 Mm2 | Russia (country ranked 1st by area) |
30 Mm2 | Africa |
35.5 Mm2 | Largest extent of the British Empire |
38 Mm2 | Surface area of the Moon |
77 Mm2 | Atlantic Ocean |
1014 | | 144 Mm2 | Surface area of Mars |
150 Mm2 | Land area of Earth |
156 Mm2 | Pacific Ocean |
360 Mm2 | Water area of Earth |
510 Mm2 | Total surface area of Earth |
1015 to 1026 square metres
List of orders of magnitude for areas 1015 to 1026 square metres. Factor (m2) | Multiple | Value | Item |
1015 | 1 peta square meter P(m2) | 1,000 Mm2 | Surface area of the white dwarf, Van Maanen's star |
7,600 Mm2 | Surface area of Neptune |
1016 | | 43,000 Mm2 | Surface area of Saturn |
61 000 Mm2 | Surface 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 1.535×1016 m2. |
1017 | | 2-600 000 Mm2 | Surface area of the brown dwarf CT Chamaeleontis B. |
460,000 Mm2 | Area swept by the Moon's orbit of Earth |
1018 | 1 square gigametre (Gm2) | 6.1 Gm2 | Surface area of the Sun |
1019 | | 30 Gm2 | Surface area of the star Vega |
1020 | | 100 Gm2 | |
1021 | 1 zetta square meter Z(m2) | 1 000 Gm2 | |
1022 | | 11 000 Gm2 | Area swept by Mercury's orbit around the Sun |
37 000 Gm2 | Area swept by Venus' orbit around the Sun |
71 000 Gm2 | Area swept by Earth's orbit around the Sun |
1023 | | 160 000 Gm2 | Area swept by Mars' orbit around the Sun |
281 000 Gm2 | Surface area of a Dyson sphere with a radius of 1 AU |
1024 | 1 yotta square meter (m2) 1 square terametre (Tm2) | 1.9 Tm2 | Area swept by Jupiter's orbit around the Sun |
6.4 Tm2 | Area swept by Saturn's orbit around the Sun |
8.5 Tm2 | Surface area of the red supergiant star Betelgeuse |
1025 | | 24 Tm2 | Surface area of the hypergiant star VY Canis Majoris |
26 Tm2 | Area swept by Uranus' orbit around the Sun |
64 Tm2 | Area swept by Neptune's orbit around the Sun |
1026 | | 110 Tm2 | Area swept by Pluto's orbit around the Sun |
1027 square metres and larger
List of orders of magnitude for areas 1027 square metres and larger. Factor (m2) | Multiple | Value | Item |
1030 | 1 square petametre (Pm2) | | |
1031 | | 10 Pm2 | |
1032 | | 200 Pm2 | Roughly the surface area of an Oort Cloud |
| 300 Pm2 | Roughly the surface area of a Bok globule |
1033 | | 1 000 Pm2 | |
1034 | | 30 000 Pm2 | Roughly the surface area of The Bubble nebula |
1035 | | 100 000 Pm2 | |
1036 | 1 square exametre (Em2) | | |
... |
1041 | | 700 000 Em2 | Roughly the area of Milky Way's galactic disk |
1042 | 1 square zettametre (Zm2) | | |
... |
1048 | 1 square yottametre (Ym2) | | |
1054 | 1 square ronnametre (Rm2) | 2.4 Rm2 | Surface area of the observable universe |
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