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Square yard

The square yard, called a vaar in Gujarati, is the unit almost every Dholera plot listing uses. This page converts it exactly, and it is the unit to normalise competing offers into before you compare them.

Updated 11 August 2026. Exact arithmetic on the international yard.

How many square yards

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.

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The unit almost every Dholera plot is quoted in

The square yard, written as sq yd and spoken as vaar, is what residential plot listings around Dholera use. It is nine square feet exactly and 0.83612736 square metres exactly, and 4,840 of them make an acre.

Because it is the quoting unit, it is also the unit to normalise every offer into before comparing them. A price per bigha and a price per square foot cannot be compared as they stand. Converted to a price per square yard, they can.

One thing the conversion will not fix. Two plots quoted at the same rate per square yard are not equivalent if one sits inside the Activation Area, the roughly 22.5 sq km first phase, and the other is farmland well outside it. The unit tells you about size, not about location or title. The registration check covers that part.

One square yard, exactly

One square yard. Derived from the international yard of 0.9144 m exactly (NIST, effective 1 July 1959).
1 square yard equals	Amount
sq ft	9
sq yd (vaar)	1
sq m	0.83612736
guntha	0.00826446
acre	0.00020661
hectare	0.00008361
bigha, at 2,500 sq yd	0.0004

The plot sizes listings use

Plot sizes quoted in square yards. Derived from the international yard of 0.9144 m exactly (NIST, effective 1 July 1959).
sq yd	sq ft	sq yd	sq m	acre	guntha
100	900	100	83.6	0.0207	0.826
150	1,350	150	125.4	0.031	1.24
200	1,800	200	167.2	0.0413	1.653
250	2,250	250	209	0.0517	2.066
300	2,700	300	250.8	0.062	2.479
400	3,600	400	334.5	0.0826	3.306
500	4,500	500	418.1	0.1033	4.132
1,000	9,000	1,000	836.1	0.2066	8.264
2,500	22,500	2,500	2,090.3	0.5165	20.661
4,840	43,560	4,840	4,046.9	1	40

The 4,840 row is exactly one acre. The 2,500 row is the bigha convention used around Dholera, which is why a bigha is often described as roughly half an acre.

Where this comes from

The exact yard 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 and 9 sq ft exactly.
1 acre = 4,840 square yards CONFIRMED NIST Office of Weights and Measures, SI units of length. Federal Register notice of 30 June 1959.
Statutory definition of the acre.
Vaar is the Gujarati name for the same unit REPORTED
Local usage. No government source in this project's document set uses the word.

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