Bigha

This converts a bigha into every other land unit used around Dholera, and it starts with the thing most bigha pages leave out: nobody has fixed how big a bigha is. Get the number wrong and you pay for land you are not buying.

Updated 11 August 2026. Conversions are exact arithmetic on the international yard. The bigha size itself is a local convention and is marked as one.

How many bigha

Bigha size used below (sq yd)

Bigha has no fixed legal size. Around 2,500 sq yd is the figure commonly used around Dholera. Change it to whatever your deed actually says.

sq ft0

sq yd (vaar)0

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guntha0

acre0

hectare0

bigha, at the size you set0

Nobody has fixed how big a bigha is

A bigha is not a legal unit in Gujarat. Its size changes from one part of the state to another and from one old deed to the next, so two people can use the word and mean different areas. Around 2,500 square yards, a little over half an acre, is the figure people use around Dholera, but that is local habit rather than law.

Vigha is simply the Gujarati spelling of the same word. It is not a second, different unit, and anyone quoting you both is quoting you one thing twice.

The evidence. The Gujarat government's own land rate book for Ahmedabad district, the Annual Statement of Rates of 2011, runs to 1,431 pages. Across the full extracted text of every page, the words bigha, vigha, guntha and vaar appear zero times in Latin script. All 1,431 pages carry the word acre and all 1,431 carry Sq.Mts. The government prices agricultural land per acre and per square metre, and non-agricultural land per square metre. It never prices land in bigha. That counting is Latin script only, because the Gujarati column headings in that document are set in a legacy font that does not extract as readable text, so a Gujarati-script occurrence could not be counted.

The practical consequence is short. If a deal is priced per bigha, get the square yard or square metre equivalent written into the agreement itself, because the registry office will work in square metres regardless of what the brochure said.

One bigha at the 2,500 sq yd convention

These figures are arithmetic on the convention above, not a legal definition. Change the convention and every row changes with it.

One bigha at the local 2,500 sq yd convention. Derived from the international yard of 0.9144 m exactly (NIST, effective 1 July 1959). Bigha rows are conditional on the 2,500 sq yd local convention and are not a legal definition.
1 bigha, at 2,500 sq yd equals	Amount
sq ft	22,500
sq yd (vaar)	2,500
sq m	2,090.3184
guntha	20.66115702
acre	0.51652893
hectare	0.20903184
bigha, at 2,500 sq yd	1

Plots at the sizes people actually buy

Again at 2,500 sq yd to the bigha.

Plot sizes in bigha, at the 2,500 sq yd convention. Bigha rows are conditional on the 2,500 sq yd local convention and are not a legal definition.
bigha	sq ft	sq yd	sq m	acre	guntha
0.25	5,625	625	522.6	0.1291	5.165
0.5	11,250	1,250	1,045.2	0.2583	10.331
1	22,500	2,500	2,090.3	0.5165	20.661
2	45,000	5,000	4,180.6	1.0331	41.322
3	67,500	7,500	6,271	1.5496	61.983
5	112,500	12,500	10,451.6	2.5826	103.306
10	225,000	25,000	20,903.2	5.1653	206.612
20	450,000	50,000	41,806.4	10.3306	413.223

Where this comes from

Bigha at about 2,500 sq yd around Dholera REPORTED
Local convention. No government source in this project's document set defines a bigha, so this figure is carried as convention and never as a rule.
The government rate book never prices land in bigha CONFIRMED Annual Statement of Rates, ASR 2011 Final, Ahmedabad district, Superintendent of Stamps, Gandhinagar. In force under the Revenue Department resolution dated 18 April 2011.
Counted over the full extracted text of all 1,431 pages of the Ahmedabad district agricultural rate book. Zero Latin-script occurrences of bigha, vigha, guntha or vaar. Checked 11 August 2026.
The exact yard, from which every conversion here derives CONFIRMED NIST Office of Weights and Measures, SI units of length. Federal Register notice of 30 June 1959.
1 yard = 0.9144 metres exactly, effective 1 July 1959. So 1 sq yd = 0.83612736 sq m exactly.
1 bigha at 2,500 sq yd = 22,500 sq ft = 2,090.3184 sq m = 0.51653 acre = 20.661 guntha DERIVED
Arithmetic on the two rows above. Conditional on the 2,500 sq yd convention holding.

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