Vaar

Vaar is the Gujarati word for yard, so one vaar of area is one square yard and nothing more. This page converts it, and explains why a brochure that uses both words is not describing two different sizes.

Updated 11 August 2026. Every conversion on this page is exact, because vaar and square yard are the same unit.

How many vaar

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

sq m0

guntha0

acre0

hectare0

bigha, at the size you set0

Vaar and square yard are the same thing

Vaar is the Gujarati word for yard. One vaar of area is one square yard, which is nine square feet, which is 0.83612736 square metres exactly. There is no conversion factor to remember and no rounding involved, because the two words name the same unit.

This matters because Dholera brochures switch between vaar and square yard inside a single paragraph, which makes some readers assume they are two different measures and that one of the quotes must be bigger than the other. They are not. A plot of 200 vaar and a plot of 200 sq yd are identical.

What to watch instead. The word that does change meaning is bigha. If a quote mixes vaar and bigha, the vaar figure is exact and the bigha figure is not, so convert the bigha into vaar and compare the two offers on the vaar number.

No government document in this project's source set uses the word vaar. The registry, the rate books and the allotment policy all work in square metres or acres, so a deed will not carry the word either.

One vaar, exactly

Every row here is exact arithmetic on the international yard, not a rounded approximation.

One vaar, which is one square yard. Derived from the international yard of 0.9144 m exactly (NIST, effective 1 July 1959).
1 vaar 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 Dholera is quoted in

These are the vaar figures that appear most often in listings, converted.

Plot sizes quoted in vaar. Derived from the international yard of 0.9144 m exactly (NIST, effective 1 July 1959).
vaar	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
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

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 and 1 inch = 25.4 mm exactly, effective 1 July 1959. Every equality on this page follows from that one line.
Vaar is the Gujarati word for yard, so one vaar of area is one square yard REPORTED
Local usage. No government source in this project's document set uses the word vaar, so this is recorded as usage rather than as a legal definition.

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