Written and fact-checked by Aadil Saif. Arithmetic independently re-verified · Last updated September 2026
Part of the India Land Unit Converter series.
The marla has a clean value and a dirty record. The value is 272.25 square feet at the standard karam and it has been that for as long as the Punjab revenue system has existed. The record is another matter: searching the Punjab and Haryana corpus for documents that state a marla in square yards returns two different answers, and the second one is not a rounding of the first. It is a different number that has been in circulation for at least sixteen years, in compensation awards and in sale documents. Every figure those documents give is re-derived here from the document's own arithmetic, and the checking script fails if any of them stops agreeing with what the page says about it.
1 marla = 272.25 square feet = 30.25 square yards = 25.29285264 square metres, exactly, at the 66-inch karam that Malwa and urban Punjab and Haryana use.
| 1 marla is | Exact? | |
|---|---|---|
| Square feet | 272.25 | Yes |
| Square yards | 30.25 | Yes |
| Square metres | 25.29285264 | Yes |
| Sarsahi | 9 | Yes |
| Kanal | 0.05 | Yes |
| Acre | 0.00625 | Yes |
| Marla | Square Feet | Square Yard | Kanal (Standard) | Killa | Square Karam (Standard) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 272.25 | 30.25 | 0.05 | 0.00625 | 9 |
| 2 | 544.5 | 60.5 | 0.1 | 0.0125 | 18 |
| 3 | 816.75 | 90.75 | 0.15 | 0.01875 | 27 |
| 5 | 1,361.25 | 151.25 | 0.25 | 0.03125 | 45 |
| 10 | 2,722.5 | 302.5 | 0.5 | 0.0625 | 90 |
| 20 | 5,445 | 605 | 1 | 0.125 | 180 |
| 50 | 13,612.5 | 1,512.5 | 2.5 | 0.3125 | 450 |
| 100 | 27,225 | 3,025 | 5 | 0.625 | 900 |
| 200 | 54,450 | 6,050 | 10 | 1.25 | 1,800 |
| 500 | 136,125 | 15,125 | 25 | 3.125 | 4,500 |
| 1,000 | 272,250 | 30,250 | 50 | 6.25 | 9,000 |
20 marla = 1 kanal. 160 marla = 1 acre. 9 sarsahi = 1 marla.
Those ratios never change. The absolute size does, because the rod the system is built on is not the same length everywhere, and that is a different problem from the one this page is mainly about.
The problem this page is mainly about is that the courts write this unit two ways. A marla is 30.25 square yards. A shorthand that makes it 30 appears in a compensation award, in a consumer commission's certificate, and in a possession suit, across sixteen years, and it is 0.826% low every time.
Convert The answer, first · To square feet, yards and metres · To the other units · The small units
Understand The rule that names it · Thirty or thirty and a quarter · What the courts wrote · The belt changes the marla · Three mistakes
Act Reading a kanal-marla-sarsahi entry · FAQ · Sources and method
Convert to a specific unit: Acre · Ankanam · Ares · Bigha · Biswa · Biswa Kacha · Cent · Chatak · Decimal · Dhur · Dismil · Gaj · Gajam · Ground · Guntha · Hectare · Kanal · Katha · Killa · Lessa · Murabba · Nali · Perch · Pura · Square Centimeter · Square Feet · Square Inch · Square Karam · Square Kilometer · Square Meter · Square Mile · Square Yard
Every one of the other thirty-two units has a section on this page. Where two units are the same area their table would be identical, so the second section points at the first rather than repeating it.
Every factor is a marla's own size, 272.25 square feet, divided by the target unit's. To check any row by hand, take that number, divide, and compare.
Each one comes from a single anchor, the acre at 43,560 square feet, by exact fraction arithmetic. Where a factor recurs, the formula gives the fraction rather than a rounded decimal, because a rounded factor is a wrong instruction rather than an approximate one: the fraction is what has to be carried wherever the arithmetic must close. Every row below is computed on the Standard (66-inch karam) definition of the marla, 272.25 square feet. The other definitions, and what each is attested by, are in the regional table on this page; a row read against the wrong one is wrong by the ratio between them.
| Conversion | Formula | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Marla to Acre | Marla × 0.00625 | Exact |
| Marla to Ankanam | Marla × 3.78125 | Exact · Ankanam is regional. This row is the Standard; also 7.5625 |
| Marla to Ares | Marla × 0.2529285264 | Exact |
| Marla to Bigha | Marla × 0.0125 | Exact · Bigha is regional. This row is the Punjab / west Haryana; also 0.01, 0.03, 0.04 and 5 more |
| Marla to Biswa | Marla × 0.6 | Exact · Biswa is regional. This row is the Punjab / Haryana old records; also 0.2, 0.3125, 0.625 |
| Marla to Biswa Kacha | Marla × 0.6 | Exact · Biswa Kacha is regional. This row is the Punjab / Haryana revenue; also 0.3125 |
| Marla to Cent | Marla × 0.625 | Exact |
| Marla to Chatak | Marla × 6.05 | Exact |
| Marla to Decimal | Marla × 0.625 | Exact |
| Marla to Dhur | Marla × 4 | Exact · Dhur is regional. This row is the Bihar / Jharkhand (Patna chain); also 75.625 |
| Marla to Dismil | Marla × 0.625 | Exact |
| Marla to Gaj | Marla × 30.25 | Exact |
| Marla to Gajam | Marla × 30.25 | Exact |
| Marla to Ground | Marla × 0.1134375 | Exact |
| Marla to Guntha | Marla × 0.25 | Exact |
| Marla to Hectare | Marla × 0.002529285264 | Exact |
| Marla to Kanal | Marla × 0.05 | Exact · Fixed in every belt. Marla and Kanal are both the karam squared, so a shorter karam changes the size of both and not the count of one in the other |
| Marla to Katha | Marla × 0.2 | Exact · Katha is regional. This row is the Bihar state standard; also 0.378125, 0.09453125, 0.15625 and 2 more |
| Marla to Killa | Marla × 0.00625 | Exact |
| Marla to Lessa | Marla × 1.890625 | Exact |
| Marla to Murabba | Marla × 0.00025 | Exact · Murabba is regional. This row is the Punjab canal colony; also 0.0004 |
| Marla to Nali | Marla × 121/960 | Recurring |
| Marla to Perch | Marla × 1 | Exact |
| Marla to Pura | Marla × 0.0047265625 | Exact |
| Marla to Square Centimeter | Marla × 252,928.5264 | Exact |
| Marla to Square Feet | Marla × 272.25 | Exact |
| Marla to Square Inch | Marla × 39,204 | Exact |
| Marla to Square Karam | Marla × 9 | Exact · Fixed in every belt. Marla and Square Karam are both the karam squared, so a shorter karam changes the size of both and not the count of one in the other |
| Marla to Square Kilometer | Marla × 0.00002529285264 | Exact |
| Marla to Square Meter | Marla × 25.29285264 | Exact |
| Marla to Square Mile | Marla × 0.000009765625 | Exact |
| Marla to Square Yard | Marla × 30.25 | Exact |
Start with something the marla has and most Indian traditional units do not: an instrument that names it.
Rule 3-A of the Punjab Stamp (Dealing of Under-valued Instruments) Rules, 1983 is headed "Procedure to be adopted for fixation of minimum value of land/property" and made under section 47-A(1) of the Indian Stamp Act. It tells the collector how to fix the minimum value below which an instrument is treated as under-valued, and it does so unit by unit:
"…for other lands/properties, it will be fixed per marla, per square yard/per square feet/per square metre keeping in view the following factors:"
Agricultural land is valued per acre or per bigha; everything else per marla, per square yard, per square foot or per square metre. The rule is reproduced in full in The Mohali Club v. State of Punjab, decided 6 May 2010 by K. Kannan J., who introduces it with the line "The reproduction of the Rule would be instructive", and it is, because it is one of the few places in Indian subordinate legislation where a traditional land unit is named as a unit of valuation rather than merely described.
It does not define the marla. Rule 3-A names it and stops. Nowhere in the Rules is a marla given a size, a karam length, or a conversion, so the rule that directs a collector to fix a value per marla does not tell the collector, or you, how large one is.
It does not give the marla metrological standing either. The position under the Legal Metrology (National Standards) Rules, 2011 is set out separately: the square metre is the unit of area, the are and hectare are tolerated, and everything else (the square yard, the square foot, the marla) is on neither list. Rule 3-A does not change that, and the two instruments are not in conflict. They are doing different jobs: a metrology rule prescribes standards, and a stamp-valuation rule describes the market it has to tax. A rule about how much land is worth has to speak the language land is sold in.
What it does establish is that the marla is not merely colloquial. When a Punjab collector fixes a minimum value, the marla is one of four units the subordinate legislation expressly contemplates, and a document valued per marla is being valued in a unit the state has written down.
That makes the size question sharper rather than softer. The rule sends a collector to a unit whose magnitude no instrument states, and the next section is what happens when different people fill that gap differently.
Here are five documents. Four of them state a marla in square yards, directly or through a rate. They do not agree.
| Document | Court | Date | What it states | Marla implied | Against 30.25 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bimla Rani v. Land Acquisition Tribunal | P&H High Court | 10 Aug 2007 | "Rs. 20/- per square yard (Rs. 600/- per marla)" | 30 sq yd | 0.826% low |
| Waryam Singh v. President | P&H High Court | 27 Apr 2009 | "Rs.600/- per marla … at Rs.20/- per square yard" | 30 sq yd | 0.826% low |
| ICICI Home Finance v. Harpal Singh | State Consumer Commission | 28 Mar 2011 | "property measuring 8 marlas (i.e. 240 square yards)" | 30 sq yd | 0.826% low |
| Ginna Devi v. Sawan Ram Gupta | P&H High Court | 1 Aug 2019 | "one kanal two marlas of land i.e. 665 square yards" | 30.2273 sq yd | 0.075%, a truncation |
| Salimuddin v. Ram Kumar | P&H High Court | 18 Apr 2023 | "240 square yards, i.e. 0 Kanal 8 Marla" | 30 sq yd | 0.826% low |
Each of those five figures is computed from the two quantities its own document states, rather than read off the document as a marla value. The whole spread between them is half a square yard.
Read the last column. One document reproduces 30.25 and four reproduce 30, and the four are not rounding the fifth, a rounding of 30.25 to the nearest whole number is exactly what 30 is, but these are not presentations of a figure. They are the figure being used, in an award and in two conveyances, and the arithmetic downstream of them carries the error.
The 30.25 is the unit. A marla is nine square karams; the karam of the standard belt is 66 inches, or five and a half feet; five and a half squared is 30.25 square feet, and nine of those is 272.25 square feet, which is 30.25 square yards. The number appears twice, as the square karam in feet and as the marla in yards, for the same reason a dozen dozen is a gross: the chain squares twice.
The 30 is a habit. Nothing derives it, and the check takes one line. Thirty square yards is 270 square feet; a marla is nine square karams; so the karam would be the square root of 30 square feet, which is 5.477 feet, 65.73 inches. That is not one of the four lengths in use, and more to the point it is not a length anyone would cut a rod to: it is neither a whole number of inches nor a round fraction of a foot, which is what every real karam is. So the 30 is not a fifth belt that nobody told us about. It is what 30.25 becomes when somebody rounds once and everybody downstream works from the rounded figure.
The ratio is fixed at 0.826%, so the cost scales with the transaction and never with the care taken over it.
None of that is a large error and none of it is a rounding you would notice in one document. It matters because it is systematic and because it runs in one direction: every party using it understates the land.
Ginna Devi is in the table for contrast. One kanal two marlas is 22 marla, and 22 × 30.25 is 665.5 square yards; the judgment says 665. That is a truncation of half a yard, 0.075%, and it is what an honest use of the right figure looks like. The two errors differ by a factor of eleven, and telling them apart is the whole skill.
The test, in one line. If a document's square-yard figure divides by its marla figure to give 30.25, it used the unit. If it gives 30, it used the habit. If it gives anything else, ask which karam.
The five documents in full, because the value of the finding is that these are quotations rather than paraphrases.
Bimla Rani and others v. Land Acquisition Tribunal and others, Punjab and Haryana High Court, 10 August 2007, recording the tribunal's award:
"tribunal has awarded Rs. 20/- per square yard (Rs. 600/- per marla)"
Waryam Singh and others v. President, Punjab and Haryana High Court, 27 April 2009, on the same measure:
"Tribunal had awarded Rs.600/- per marla upto depth of 50 karams at Rs.20/- per square yard"
Two judgments, two years apart, on the same kind of award, carrying the same pair of figures. Note also "upto depth of 50 karams", the karam being used here as a length, to describe how far back from a road the higher rate applies. It is the same rod the marla is built from, doing the job it was cut for.
ICICI Home Finance v. Harpal Singh and another, State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, 28 March 2011:
"certificate to the effect that the property measuring 8 marlas (i.e. 240 square yards) i.e. 1/20 share of 8 kanals"
Salimuddin v. Ram Kumar and others, Punjab and Haryana High Court, 18 April 2023:
"unauthorized possession of the suit land measuring 240 square yards, i.e. 0 Kanal 8 Marla to the extent of 6 Karam on eastern side"
And the one that uses the unit rather than the habit, Ginna Devi v. Sawan Ram Gupta, Punjab and Haryana High Court, 1 August 2019:
"the plaintiff had purchased one kanal two marlas of land i.e. 665 square yards"
These are five documents, not a survey. They were found by searching for the pairing rather than sampled from it, so they show that the 30-square-yard marla exists in the record and recurs over sixteen years. They do not show how common it is against the correct figure. Ninety-three documents pair the two units in some form; this page has not read all ninety-three and does not claim a proportion.
Nor is any of this a criticism of the courts. In three of the four the figure is being reproduced from something the court was given (an award, a certificate, a pleading), and in none of them did the difference decide anything. The point is not that a judge made an arithmetic error. It is that the wrong figure is in circulation, in documents that get relied on, and that it is silent: 240 and 242 both look like plausible plot sizes, and nothing in either flags which one came from the unit.
Everything above assumes the 66-inch karam. It is the standard one, it is what Malwa and urban Punjab and Haryana use, and it is the one that produces 272.25 square feet. It is not the only one.
| Belt | Karam | Square karam | Marla | Kanal | Sourced to an instrument? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Malwa, and urban Punjab and Haryana | 66 in | 30.25 sq ft | 272.25 sq ft | 5,445 sq ft | No, see below |
| Majha | 60 in | 25 sq ft | 225 sq ft | 4,500 sq ft | No, see below |
| Doaba | 57.5 in | 22.960069 sq ft | 206.640625 sq ft | 4,132.8125 sq ft | No, see below |
| Kapurthala | 54 in | 20.25 sq ft | 182.25 sq ft | 3,645 sq ft | No, see below |
Read the last column before the others. This series has not been able to reach an instrument stating any of these lengths. They are reported consistently: the Acre page sets out the belts and their districts, and a working note on unit 4 attributed a pair of karam lengths to the Punjab Land Records Manual, which unit 10 then could not reach. Until one page in this series reads that manual, this one repeats the lengths as reported and refuses to present the derivation as sourced. The Square Karam page is the page that owes that answer, and if it cannot get it either, the entry stays open.
What is not in doubt is the structure. Within any one belt the ratios are fixed: 9 sarsahi to a marla, 20 marla to a kanal, 8 kanal to a killa. So a jamabandi entry of "2 kanal 10 marla" is 2.5 kanal in every belt in Punjab, and you can do the internal arithmetic without knowing which belt you are in. You need the belt only to leave the system, to convert into square feet, square metres or acres.
That is worth stating as a rule, because it is the opposite of the bigha, where the internal ratios and the absolute size both move. Here the ladder is rigid and only the ground it stands on shifts.
One consequence is worth a sentence for anyone comparing two districts. A Kapurthala marla is 182.25 square feet against Malwa's 272.25, a third smaller, so a "10 marla plot" in one place and a "10 marla plot" in the other are not the same thing, and no amount of decimal precision reconciles them. Ask for square feet, or ask which karam.
At the 66-inch karam. Multiply by 272.25 for square feet, by 30.25 for square yards, by 25.29285264 for square metres.
| Marla | Square feet | Square yards | Square metres | Sarsahi | Kanal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 272.25 | 30.25 | 25.2929 | 9 | 0.05 |
| 2 | 544.5 | 60.5 | 50.5857 | 18 | 0.1 |
| 3 | 816.75 | 90.75 | 75.8786 | 27 | 0.15 |
| 4 | 1,089 | 121 | 101.1714 | 36 | 0.2 |
| 5 | 1,361.25 | 151.25 | 126.4643 | 45 | 0.25 |
| 6 | 1,633.5 | 181.5 | 151.7571 | 54 | 0.3 |
| 7 | 1,905.75 | 211.75 | 177.05 | 63 | 0.35 |
| 8 | 2,178 | 242 | 202.3428 | 72 | 0.4 |
| 9 | 2,450.25 | 272.25 | 227.6357 | 81 | 0.45 |
| 10 | 2,722.5 | 302.5 | 252.9285 | 90 | 0.5 |
| 12 | 3,267 | 363 | 303.5142 | 108 | 0.6 |
| 15 | 4,083.75 | 453.75 | 379.3928 | 135 | 0.75 |
| 18 | 4,900.5 | 544.5 | 455.2713 | 162 | 0.9 |
| 20 | 5,445 | 605 | 505.8571 | 180 | 1 |
| 25 | 6,806.25 | 756.25 | 632.3213 | 225 | 1.25 |
| 40 | 10,890 | 1,210 | 1,011.7141 | 360 | 2 |
| 80 | 21,780 | 2,420 | 2,023.4282 | 720 | 4 |
| 160 | 43,560 | 4,840 | 4,046.8564 | 1,440 | 8 |
Three rows are worth keeping in your head. A marla is 9 sarsahi. Twenty marla is a kanal, 5,445 square feet. A hundred and sixty marla is an acre, 43,560. Every figure in the table terminates, because 272.25 is 1089/4 and the divisors are all powers of two and five, which is why this unit never produces a recurring decimal in square feet or square yards, only in square metres.
The 4-marla row is the one to notice: 1,089 square feet, which is a guntha. The Punjab chain and the Maharashtra chain meet exactly once, and this is where.
A Punjab or Haryana jamabandi states area in three columns, largest first, and a judgment will reproduce it the same way: "2 Kanal 14 Marla 4 ½ Sarsahi", from a 2026 possession matter.
| Column in the jamabandi | One of them | As a fraction of a kanal | In square feet |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kanal | 1 kanal | 1 | 5,445 |
| Marla | 1 marla | 0.05 | 272.25 |
| Sarsahi | 1 sarsahi | 0.005556 | 30.25 |
To read it, convert down and add:
Two habits make this safe. Never carry a fraction upward. A half sarsahi is 15.125 square feet, and rounding it into the marla column loses more than it looks. And do the addition in marla, not in feet, because the marla is the column all three convert into cleanly and the square-foot values of the sarsahi and kanal are where rounding creeps in.
The chain stops at the sarsahi. There is no fourth column: below a sarsahi the record does not go, and a fraction of a sarsahi is written as a fraction, which is why "4 ½ Sarsahi" appears in judgments exactly like that.
| Unit | In marla | Marla in one of them |
|---|---|---|
| Bigha, Punjab customary (4 kanal) | 80 | 0.0125 |
| Bigha, UP, Bihar, Rajasthan pucca | 100 | 0.01 |
| Biswa, Uttar Pradesh pucca | 5 | 0.2 |
| Guntha | 4 | 0.25 |
| Cent · Decimal · Dismil | 1.6 | 0.625 |
| Ground, Chennai | 8.8154 | 0.113438 |
| Are | 3.9537 | 0.252929 |
| Killa · acre | 160 | 0.00625 |
The Punjab customary bigha is the row that surprises people: four kanal, exactly half an acre, 80 marla. It is the one bigha in India that resolves to a clean fraction of an acre, and the Bigha page sets out why Punjab's is different from every other state's.
Two more rows repay a look. A guntha is exactly four marla (1,089 square feet either way), which is the only clean meeting point between the Punjab chain and the Deccan one, and it exists because both were laid out against the same acre. And a cent is 1.6 marla, which is not clean, because the cent is a hundredth of an acre and the marla a hundred-and-sixtieth: the two chains divide the same acre by different numbers and nothing tidy comes of it.
Where a row does not terminate, it is the metric one. Everything Indian in this table is a whole-number fraction of the acre, and the acre is 43,560 square feet, so the arithmetic between any two of them closes exactly.
| Unit | 1 marla = | Terminates? |
|---|---|---|
| Square inch | 39,204 | Yes |
| Square foot | 272.25 | Yes |
| Square yard | 30.25 | Yes |
| Square metre | 25.29285264 | Yes |
| Are | 0.2529285264 | Yes |
Every row terminates, which is unusual enough to explain. A marla is 1089/4 square feet, and 4 is a power of two, so nothing in the denominator can resist the decimal system. A marla is exactly 25.29285264 square metres and exactly 39,204 square inches. The recurrence is all in the other direction: converting square metres back into marla does not terminate, and the rule behind that asymmetry belongs to the metre.
Using 30 square yards to the marla. It is 30.25, and the difference is 0.826% in one direction, forty square yards in every acre. The reason it survives is that it never looks wrong: 240 and 242 are both plausible plot sizes and neither carries a flag. The check is division, not inspection.
Comparing a marla in one district with a marla in another. The ratios hold everywhere; the size does not. A Kapurthala marla is a third smaller than a Malwa one, so "10 marla" in Kapurthala and "10 marla" in Ludhiana differ by more than 900 square feet. No conversion table fixes a figure whose belt you do not know, ask for square feet instead.
Rounding a sarsahi into the marla column. A jamabandi's third column is not decoration. Half a sarsahi is 15.125 square feet, and a record that reads "14 marla 4½ sarsahi" is telling you something a record that reads "14.5 marla" is not. The first is a measured area and the second is somebody's arithmetic, done once and then relied on.
A fourth belongs to another page. A marla and a perch are the same area (272.25 square feet, 160 to the acre), and that is not a coincidence but an identity, because the two chains share a rod.
How many square feet in a marla? 272.25 at the 66-inch karam, which is the standard in Malwa and in urban Punjab and Haryana. Other belts give 225, 206.640625 or 182.25.
How many square yards in a marla? 30.25, exactly. Not 30: that figure is in circulation, including in judgments, and it is 0.826% low.
How many marla in a kanal and in an acre? 20 in a kanal, 160 in an acre. Both are exact and neither varies by belt.
What is a sarsahi? The next unit down: 9 sarsahi make a marla, so a sarsahi is 30.25 square feet at the standard karam. The Square Karam page covers it, including a High Court figure for it that the chain cannot produce.
Does any law recognise the marla? Rule 3-A of the Punjab Stamp (Dealing of Under-valued Instruments) Rules, 1983 directs that minimum value for non-agricultural property be fixed "per marla, per square yard/per square feet/per square metre". It names the unit; it does not define it, and the metrology rules do not list it. The Square Yard page sets that out.
Is a marla the same as a perch? Yes, exactly, at the 66-inch karam: both are 272.25 square feet and both go 160 to the acre. See the Perch page.
How do I read "2 kanal 14 marla 4½ sarsahi"? Convert everything to marla and add: 40 + 14 + 0.5 = 54.5 marla, which is 14,837.625 square feet.
I have seen "1 marla = 25 square yards". Is that the same error? No, it is a different one and this series has corrected it elsewhere. Twenty-five square yards is 225 square feet, which is the Majha marla from the 60-inch karam, real, but a regional variant rather than an Indian standard, and the Acre page sets out where the "standardised to 25 square yards" claim comes from. The 30-square-yard figure on this page is not a belt at all; no karam produces it.
Is a marla 4 marla to a guntha by coincidence? No. A guntha is 1,089 square feet and a marla 272.25, so four marla make a guntha exactly. Both units were cut from the same acre, 160 marla and 40 guntha, and 160 divided by 40 is 4.
What is a marla in Himachal Pradesh and Jammu & Kashmir? Both use the kanal-marla chain with the same internal ratios. This series has not verified the karam in use in either, so it does not state a square-foot value for them. Where a document from either matters, take the figure from the jamabandi's own area column rather than converting from marla, and if a hectare or square-metre figure appears beside it, as it increasingly does, that is the safer of the two to work from, because it does not depend on knowing the rod.
Why does my area change when I convert to square metres? It should not. A marla is exactly 25.29285264 square metres. What changes is the number of decimals you keep. The value terminates going one way and recurs coming back.
| Statement | Source |
|---|---|
| "will be fixed per marla, per square yard/per square feet/per square metre" | Rule 3-A, Punjab Stamp (Dealing of Under-valued Instruments) Rules, 1983, under s. 47-A(1), Indian Stamp Act, reproduced in The Mohali Club v. State of Punjab, P&H HC, 6 May 2010 |
| "Rs. 20/- per square yard (Rs. 600/- per marla)" | P&H High Court, Bimla Rani v. Land Acquisition Tribunal, 10 August 2007 |
| "Rs.600/- per marla … at Rs.20/- per square yard" | P&H High Court, Waryam Singh v. President, 27 April 2009 |
| "property measuring 8 marlas (i.e. 240 square yards)" | State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, ICICI Home Finance v. Harpal Singh, 28 March 2011 |
| "one kanal two marlas of land i.e. 665 square yards" | P&H High Court, Ginna Devi v. Sawan Ram Gupta, 1 August 2019 |
| "240 square yards, i.e. 0 Kanal 8 Marla to the extent of 6 Karam" | P&H High Court, Salimuddin v. Ram Kumar, 18 April 2023 |
| "2 Kanal 14 Marla 4 ½ Sarsahi" | P&H High Court, Sukhdev Singh v. Jagmal Singh, 9 April 2026 |
| 93 documents pairing a per-square-yard with a per-marla figure; 10 reproducing Rule 3-A's sentence | Indian Kanoon full-text search, September 2026; documents, not decisions |
| The four karam belts and their districts | Reported, not sourced; see the belt table's last column and the Acre page |
| 1 sq yd = 0.83612736 m² exactly | The defined yard; see the Square Yard page |
Everything here derives from one stored value, the marla at 1089/4 square feet, held as an exact fraction and rounded once, at printing.
The control this page needs is not arithmetic. Each of the five documents states two quantities, and the marla each implies is computed from those two rather than typed: the script divides the square-yard figure by the marla figure, compares it against 30.25, and writes the percentage into the table itself. Mistranscribe a quotation, or change the stored value, and the last column moves and the page's claim about that document fails with it.
Six pages in this series come out of the Punjab chain. This one is about the marla's value and the two figures in circulation for it. The unit below it owes the karam-length answer. The unit above it is the kanal. The survey blocks the chain sits inside, the murabba's twenty-five-acre rectangle and the killa numbered inside it, are taken separately, as is the English unit that turns out to be the same thing. The ladder itself (the ratios, the belts, the killa's identity with the acre) is set out with the acre and cited here rather than repeated.
| Conversion | 1 Marla | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Acre | 0.00625 | Exact; Exact by definition: 43,560 sq ft = 4,840 sq yd |
| Ankanam | 3.78125 (Standard) | Region-specific; also 7.5625 (Tirupati) |
| Ares | 0.2529285264 | Exact; 100 m², the metric are |
| Bigha | 0.0125 (Punjab / west Haryana) | Region-specific; also 0.01 (UP pucca / Bihar / Rajasthan pucca) · 0.03 (UP kachha (6⅔ biswa)) · 0.04 (UP kachha (5 biswa) / Uttarakhand hills) |
| Biswa | 0.6 (Punjab / Haryana old records) | Region-specific; also 0.2 (UP / Rajasthan pucca) · 0.3125 (Rajasthan kachha) · 0.625 (Himachal Pradesh) |
| Biswa Kacha | 0.6 (Punjab / Haryana revenue definition) | Region-specific; also 0.3125 (Rajasthan kachha reading) |
| Cent | 0.625 | Exact; One hundredth of an acre, exactly |
| Chatak | 6.05 | Exact; 5 sq yd exactly; 16 to the cottah, 968 to the acre. Reported, not stated by any instrument located |
| Decimal | 0.625 | Exact; One hundredth of an acre, exactly |
| Dhur | 4 (Bihar / Jharkhand (Patna chain)) | Region-specific; also 75.625 (Tripura) |
| Dismil | 0.625 | Exact; The decimal under another name |
| Gaj | 30.25 | Exact; The square yard, 9 sq ft |
| Gajam | 30.25 | Exact; The square yard in Telugu, 9 sq ft |
| Ground | 0.1134375 | Exact; Tamil Nadu Urban Land Tax Act 1966, s.2(8-A): "an area comprising two hundred and twenty three square metres (two thousand and four hundred square feet)" |
| Guntha | 0.25 | Exact; 121 sq yd; 40 guntha = 1 acre exactly |
| Hectare | 0.002529285264 | Exact; 10,000 m² exactly |
| Kanal | 0.05 | Exact; the same in every karam belt, both units being the karam squared |
| Katha | 0.2 (Bihar state standard) | Region-specific; also 0.378125 (West Bengal / Jharkhand) · 0.09453125 (Assam) · 0.15625 (Bihar (Chhapra)) |
| Killa | 0.00625 | Exact; The acre under its Punjabi name |
| Lessa | 1.890625 | Exact; The 12-foot mauzadari jar squared (Assam Land Records Manual r.117); 20 to a katha, 100 to a bigha |
| Murabba | 0.00025 (Punjab canal colony) | Region-specific; also 0.0004 (Rajasthan (Indira Gandhi Canal)) |
| Nali | 0.126042 | Recurring; 240 sq yd; 16 mutthi of 135 sq ft. No instrument located states the figure |
| Perch | 1 | Exact; the same area as a marla, 272.25 sq ft, under another name |
| Pura | 0.0047265625 | Exact; 4 Assam bigha of 14,400 sq ft. The 4:1 ratio is SOURCED -- the Supreme Court states it in 1961 and 1971 and the Gauhati High Court in 1986, 2023, 2024 and 2026 -- but no instrument, judgment or manual states the square-foot figure, which is derived from the Assam bigha |
| Square Centimeter | 252,928.5264 | Exact; One ten-thousandth of a square metre |
| Square Feet | 272.25 | Exact; The base of this series |
| Square Inch | 39,204 | Exact; One 144th of a square foot |
| Square Karam | 9 | Exact; the same in every karam belt, both units being the karam squared |
| Square Kilometer | 0.00002529285264 | Exact; 1,000,000 m² |
| Square Meter | 25.29285264 | Exact; The SI unit of area |
| Square Mile | 0.000009765625 | Exact; Standards of Weights and Measures Act 1976, Schedule (see s.79): "1 square mile = 2 589 988.110 336 square metres"; 640 acres exactly |
| Square Yard | 30.25 | Exact; 9 sq ft exactly |
1 marla = 0.00625 acres, exact. An acre is exact by definition: 43,560 sq ft = 4,840 sq yd.
Computed on the Standard (66-inch karam) marla of 272.25 square feet, one of 5 definitions this series carries for this unit.
Acre = Marla × 0.00625
| Marla | Acre |
|---|---|
| 1 | 0.00625 |
| 2 | 0.0125 |
| 3 | 0.01875 |
| 5 | 0.03125 |
| 10 | 0.0625 |
| 20 | 0.125 |
| 50 | 0.3125 |
| 100 | 0.625 |
| 200 | 1.25 |
| 500 | 3.125 |
| 1,000 | 6.25 |
5 marla × 0.00625 = 0.03125 acres
Marla = Acre × 160
1 marla = 0.0125 bigha on the Punjab / west Haryana definition. The bigha has no single national value. It is also 0.01 (UP pucca / Bihar / Rajasthan pucca) · 0.03 (UP kachha (6⅔ biswa)) · 0.04 (UP kachha (5 biswa) / Uttarakhand hills) and 5 more per marla. Every definition this series has located is set out with the evidence behind it.
Computed on the Standard (66-inch karam) marla of 272.25 square feet, one of 5 definitions this series carries for this unit.
Bigha = Marla × 0.0125 (Punjab / west Haryana)
| Marla | Bigha (Punjab / west Haryana) |
|---|---|
| 1 | 0.0125 |
| 2 | 0.025 |
| 3 | 0.0375 |
| 5 | 0.0625 |
| 10 | 0.125 |
| 20 | 0.25 |
| 50 | 0.625 |
| 100 | 1.25 |
| 200 | 2.5 |
| 500 | 6.25 |
| 1,000 | 12.5 |
| Bigha definition | Where it applies | 1 bigha in sq ft | Bigha per marla | Terminates? | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UP pucca / Bihar / Rajasthan pucca | Purvanchal, Awadh, Patna belt, east Rajasthan | 27,225 | 0.01 | Exact | sourced |
| UP kachha (6⅔ biswa) | West Uttar Pradesh | 9,075 | 0.03 | Exact | sourced |
| UP kachha (5 biswa) / Uttarakhand hills | West UP, Kumaon and Garhwal hills | 6,806.25 | 0.04 | Exact | sourced |
| Rajasthan kachha / Gujarat vigha / Uttarakhand Terai | Marwar, Gujarat, Terai | 17,424 | 0.015625 | Exact | sourced |
| Madhya Pradesh | Madhya Pradesh | 12,000 | 0.0226875 | Exact | reported, not sourced |
| West Bengal / Assam / Jharkhand | West Bengal, Assam, Ranchi | 14,400 | 0.01890625 | Exact | sourced |
| Himachal Pradesh / Haryana Rohtak belt | Himachal Pradesh, Rohtak, Hisar | 8,712 | 0.03125 | Exact | sourced |
| Punjab / west Haryana (the definition used here) | Punjab, kanal belt of Haryana | 21,780 | 0.0125 | Exact | sourced |
| Haryana Ambala belt | Ambala, Gurugram, Faridabad, Karnal, Panipat | 8,100 | 0.033611 | Recurring | sourced |
Not every definition above rests on an instrument. 1 of the 9 are marked reported or no instrument located: in circulation and internally consistent, but this series could not find a rule, manual or judgment stating them. What was searched for each is recorded with that unit. Terminates? answers only whether the ratio has a finite decimal, not whether the figure behind it is verified.
To convert against one of the other definitions, multiply by its factor.
5 marla × 0.0125 = 0.0625 bigha
Marla = Bigha × 80 (Punjab / west Haryana)
Marla = Bigha × 100 (UP pucca / Bihar / Rajasthan pucca)
Marla = Bigha ÷ 0.03 (UP kachha (6⅔ biswa))
Marla = Bigha × 25 (UP kachha (5 biswa) / Uttarakhand hills)
Marla = Bigha × 64 (Rajasthan kachha / Gujarat vigha / Uttarakhand Terai)
Marla = Bigha ÷ 0.0226875 (Madhya Pradesh)
Marla = Bigha ÷ 0.01890625 (West Bengal / Assam / Jharkhand)
Marla = Bigha × 32 (Himachal Pradesh / Haryana Rohtak belt)
Marla = Bigha × 3,600/121 (Haryana Ambala belt)
1 marla = 0.6 biswa on the Punjab / Haryana old records definition. The biswa has no single national value. It is also 0.2 (UP / Rajasthan pucca) · 0.3125 (Rajasthan kachha) · 0.625 (Himachal Pradesh) per marla. Every definition this series has located is set out with the evidence behind it.
Computed on the Standard (66-inch karam) marla of 272.25 square feet, one of 5 definitions this series carries for this unit.
The ratio is the fraction 3/5, or 0.6 exactly.
Biswa = Marla × 0.6 (Punjab / Haryana old records)
| Marla | Biswa (Punjab / Haryana old records) |
|---|---|
| 1 | 0.6 |
| 2 | 1.2 |
| 3 | 1.8 |
| 5 | 3 |
| 10 | 6 |
| 20 | 12 |
| 50 | 30 |
| 100 | 60 |
| 200 | 120 |
| 500 | 300 |
| 1,000 | 600 |
| Biswa definition | Where it applies | 1 biswa in sq ft | Biswa per marla | Terminates? | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UP / Rajasthan pucca | Uttar Pradesh, east Rajasthan | 1,361.25 | 0.2 | Exact | sourced |
| Rajasthan kachha | Marwar | 871.2 | 0.3125 | Exact | no instrument located |
| Punjab / Haryana old records (the definition used here) | Punjab, Haryana | 453.75 | 0.6 | Exact | sourced |
| Himachal Pradesh | Himachal Pradesh | 435.6 | 0.625 | Exact | no instrument located |
Not every definition above rests on an instrument. 2 of the 4 are marked reported or no instrument located: in circulation and internally consistent, but this series could not find a rule, manual or judgment stating them. What was searched for each is recorded with that unit. Terminates? answers only whether the ratio has a finite decimal, not whether the figure behind it is verified.
| Marla | Biswa (1,361.25 sq ft) |
|---|---|
| 1 | 0.2 |
| 2 | 0.4 |
| 3 | 0.6 |
| 5 | 1 |
| 10 | 2 |
| 20 | 4 |
| 50 | 10 |
| 100 | 20 |
| 200 | 40 |
| 500 | 100 |
| 1,000 | 200 |
| Marla | Biswa (871.2 sq ft) |
|---|---|
| 1 | 0.3125 |
| 2 | 0.625 |
| 3 | 0.9375 |
| 5 | 1.5625 |
| 10 | 3.125 |
| 20 | 6.25 |
| 50 | 15.625 |
| 100 | 31.25 |
| 200 | 62.5 |
| 500 | 156.25 |
| 1,000 | 312.5 |
| Marla | Biswa (435.6 sq ft) |
|---|---|
| 1 | 0.625 |
| 2 | 1.25 |
| 3 | 1.875 |
| 5 | 3.125 |
| 10 | 6.25 |
| 20 | 12.5 |
| 50 | 31.25 |
| 100 | 62.5 |
| 200 | 125 |
| 500 | 312.5 |
| 1,000 | 625 |
5 marla × 0.6 = 3 biswa
Marla = Biswa ÷ 0.6 (Punjab / Haryana old records)
Marla = Biswa × 5 (UP / Rajasthan pucca)
Marla = Biswa × 3.2 (Rajasthan kachha)
Marla = Biswa × 1.6 (Himachal Pradesh)
1 marla = 0.6 biswa kacha on the Punjab / Haryana revenue definition. The biswa kacha has no single national value. It is also 0.3125 (Rajasthan kachha reading) per marla. Every definition this series has located is set out with the evidence behind it.
Computed on the Standard (66-inch karam) marla of 272.25 square feet, one of 5 definitions this series carries for this unit.
The ratio is the fraction 3/5, or 0.6 exactly.
Biswa Kacha = Marla × 0.6 (Punjab / Haryana revenue definition)
453.75 square feet either way, so the Marla to Biswa figures apply unchanged. What differs between the two is the record each word belongs to, not the size.
| Biswa Kacha definition | Where it applies | 1 biswa kacha in sq ft | Biswa Kacha per marla | Terminates? | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Punjab / Haryana revenue definition (the definition used here) | Punjab, Haryana | 453.75 | 0.6 | Exact | sourced |
| Rajasthan kachha reading | Marwar | 871.2 | 0.3125 | Exact | no instrument located |
Not every definition above rests on an instrument. 1 of the 2 are marked reported or no instrument located: in circulation and internally consistent, but this series could not find a rule, manual or judgment stating them. What was searched for each is recorded with that unit. Terminates? answers only whether the ratio has a finite decimal, not whether the figure behind it is verified.
871.2 square feet either way, so the Marla to Biswa, Rajasthan kachha figures apply unchanged. What differs between the two is the record each word belongs to, not the size.
5 marla × 0.6 = 3 biswa kacha
Marla = Biswa Kacha ÷ 0.6 (Punjab / Haryana revenue definition)
Marla = Biswa Kacha × 3.2 (Rajasthan kachha reading)
1 marla = 0.002529285264 hectares, exact. A hectare is 10,000 m² exactly.
Computed on the Standard (66-inch karam) marla of 272.25 square feet, one of 5 definitions this series carries for this unit.
The ratio is the fraction 158,080,329/62,500,000,000, or 0.002529285264 exactly.
Hectare = Marla × 0.002529285264
| Marla | Hectare |
|---|---|
| 1 | 0.002529285264 |
| 2 | 0.005058570528 |
| 3 | 0.007587855792 |
| 5 | 0.01264642632 |
| 10 | 0.02529285264 |
| 20 | 0.05058570528 |
| 50 | 0.1264642632 |
| 100 | 0.2529285264 |
| 200 | 0.5058570528 |
| 500 | 1.264642632 |
| 1,000 | 2.529285264 |
5 marla × 0.002529285264 = 0.01264642632 hectares
Marla = Hectare ÷ 0.002529285264
1 marla = 0.05 kanal, and the same in every karam belt. Both units are the karam squared: where the local karam is shorter, a marla and a kanal shrink together and the count of one in the other does not move. What the belt changes is their size in square feet.
Computed on the Standard (66-inch karam) marla of 272.25 square feet, one of 5 definitions this series carries for this unit.
Twenty marla make one kanal, and because the ratio holds in every belt, a kanal-marla figure needs no belt to be read. "2 kanal 14 marla" is 54 marla in Amritsar exactly as it is in Ludhiana. The belt is needed at one step only: the conversion out into square feet, square yards or metric. Do the arithmetic inside the chain first and settle the belt last, and the belt question arises once instead of at every line.
Kanal = Marla × 0.05
| Marla | Kanal (Standard (66-inch karam)) |
|---|---|
| 1 | 0.05 |
| 2 | 0.1 |
| 3 | 0.15 |
| 5 | 0.25 |
| 10 | 0.5 |
| 20 | 1 |
| 50 | 2.5 |
| 100 | 5 |
| 200 | 10 |
| 500 | 25 |
| 1,000 | 50 |
| Kanal definition | Where it applies | 1 kanal in sq ft | Kanal per marla | Terminates? | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard (66-inch karam) (the definition used here) | Most of Punjab, Haryana, Himachal, J&K | 5,445 | 0.05 | Exact | sourced |
| Majha belt (60-inch karam) | Amritsar, Gurdaspur, Tarn Taran | 4,500 | 0.05 | Exact | reported, not sourced |
| Doaba belt (57.5-inch karam) | Jalandhar, Kapurthala and Hoshiarpur, and Kangra in Himachal | 4,132.8125 | 0.05 | Exact | reported, not sourced |
| Kapurthala belt (54-inch karam) | Parts of Kapurthala | 3,645 | 0.05 | Exact | reported, not sourced |
The ratio does not move. The marla and the kanal are both the karam squared, so a shorter karam shrinks them together and leaves the count between them unchanged: 0.05 in every belt. What the belt changes is the size of both, not the number of one in the other. A definition with no karam belt of its own has no entry.
Not every definition above rests on an instrument. 3 of the 4 are marked reported or no instrument located: in circulation and internally consistent, but this series could not find a rule, manual or judgment stating them. What was searched for each is recorded with that unit. Terminates? answers only whether the ratio has a finite decimal, not whether the figure behind it is verified.
The same ladder holds in every belt. To convert a belt marla into square feet, take the belt's own figure and the grading recorded with that unit.
5 marla × 0.05 = 0.25 kanal
Marla = Kanal × 20 (Standard (66-inch karam))
Marla = Kanal × 20 (Majha belt (60-inch karam))
Marla = Kanal × 20 (Doaba belt (57.5-inch karam))
Marla = Kanal × 20 (Kapurthala belt (54-inch karam))
1 marla = 0.00025 murabba on the Punjab canal colony definition. The murabba has no single national value. It is also 0.0004 (Rajasthan (Indira Gandhi Canal)) per marla. Every definition this series has located is set out with the evidence behind it.
Computed on the Standard (66-inch karam) marla of 272.25 square feet, one of 5 definitions this series carries for this unit.
Murabba = Marla × 0.00025 (Punjab canal colony)
| Marla | Murabba (Punjab canal colony) |
|---|---|
| 1 | 0.00025 |
| 2 | 0.0005 |
| 3 | 0.00075 |
| 5 | 0.00125 |
| 10 | 0.0025 |
| 20 | 0.005 |
| 50 | 0.0125 |
| 100 | 0.025 |
| 200 | 0.05 |
| 500 | 0.125 |
| 1,000 | 0.25 |
| Murabba definition | Where it applies | 1 murabba in sq ft | Murabba per marla | Terminates? | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Punjab canal colony (the definition used here) | Punjab, Haryana canal colonies | 1,089,000 | 0.00025 | Exact | reported, not sourced |
| Rajasthan (Indira Gandhi Canal) | Sri Ganganagar, Hanumangarh, Bikaner, Jaisalmer | 680,625 | 0.0004 | Exact | sourced |
Not every definition above rests on an instrument. 1 of the 2 are marked reported or no instrument located: in circulation and internally consistent, but this series could not find a rule, manual or judgment stating them. What was searched for each is recorded with that unit. Terminates? answers only whether the ratio has a finite decimal, not whether the figure behind it is verified.
| Marla | Murabba (680,625 sq ft) |
|---|---|
| 1 | 0.0004 |
| 2 | 0.0008 |
| 3 | 0.0012 |
| 5 | 0.002 |
| 10 | 0.004 |
| 20 | 0.008 |
| 50 | 0.02 |
| 100 | 0.04 |
| 200 | 0.08 |
| 500 | 0.2 |
| 1,000 | 0.4 |
5 marla × 0.00025 = 0.00125 murabba
Marla = Murabba × 4,000 (Punjab canal colony)
Marla = Murabba × 2,500 (Rajasthan (Indira Gandhi Canal))
1 marla = 272.25 square feet, exact. A square foot is the base of this series.
Computed on the Standard (66-inch karam) marla of 272.25 square feet, one of 5 definitions this series carries for this unit.
272.25 square feet to the standard marla, but only on the 66-inch karam. In the Majha belt the marla is 225 square feet, in Doaba 206.640625, in parts of Kapurthala 182.25. A Punjab plot quoted in marla needs the belt before it needs arithmetic.
Where the square foot fits into the marla's own record is set out in Marla to Square Feet, Yards and Metres above; what follows is the arithmetic.
The ratio is the fraction 1,089/4, or 272.25 exactly.
Square Feet = Marla × 272.25
| Marla | Square Feet |
|---|---|
| 1 | 272.25 |
| 2 | 544.5 |
| 3 | 816.75 |
| 5 | 1,361.25 |
| 10 | 2,722.5 |
| 20 | 5,445 |
| 50 | 13,612.5 |
| 100 | 27,225 |
| 200 | 54,450 |
| 500 | 136,125 |
| 1,000 | 272,250 |
5 marla × 272.25 = 1,361.25 square feet
Marla = Square Feet ÷ 272.25
1 marla = 9 square karam, and the same in every karam belt. Both units are the karam squared: where the local karam is shorter, a marla and a square karam shrink together and the count of one in the other does not move. What the belt changes is their size in square feet.
Computed on the Standard (66-inch karam) marla of 272.25 square feet, one of 5 definitions this series carries for this unit.
Nine sarsahi to the marla, in every belt. The sarsahi is the square of the karam, so both units shrink together and the ratio holds.
Square Karam = Marla × 9
| Marla | Square Karam (Standard (66-inch karam)) |
|---|---|
| 1 | 9 |
| 2 | 18 |
| 3 | 27 |
| 5 | 45 |
| 10 | 90 |
| 20 | 180 |
| 50 | 450 |
| 100 | 900 |
| 200 | 1,800 |
| 500 | 4,500 |
| 1,000 | 9,000 |
| Square Karam definition | Where it applies | 1 square karam in sq ft | Square Karam per marla | Terminates? | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard (66-inch karam) (the definition used here) | Most of Punjab, Haryana, Himachal, J&K | 30.25 | 9 | Exact | sourced |
| Majha belt (60-inch karam) | Amritsar, Gurdaspur, Tarn Taran | 25 | 9 | Exact | reported, not sourced |
| Doaba belt (57.5-inch karam) | Jalandhar, Kapurthala and Hoshiarpur, and Kangra in Himachal | 22.960069 | 9 | Exact | reported, not sourced |
| Kapurthala belt (54-inch karam) | Parts of Kapurthala | 20.25 | 9 | Exact | reported, not sourced |
The ratio does not move. The marla and the square karam are both the karam squared, so a shorter karam shrinks them together and leaves the count between them unchanged: 9 in every belt. What the belt changes is the size of both, not the number of one in the other. A definition with no karam belt of its own has no entry.
Not every definition above rests on an instrument. 3 of the 4 are marked reported or no instrument located: in circulation and internally consistent, but this series could not find a rule, manual or judgment stating them. What was searched for each is recorded with that unit. Terminates? answers only whether the ratio has a finite decimal, not whether the figure behind it is verified.
The same ladder holds in every belt. To convert a belt marla into square feet, take the belt's own figure and the grading recorded with that unit.
5 marla × 9 = 45 square karam
Marla = Square Karam ÷ 9 (Standard (66-inch karam))
Marla = Square Karam ÷ 9 (Majha belt (60-inch karam))
Marla = Square Karam ÷ 9 (Doaba belt (57.5-inch karam))
Marla = Square Karam ÷ 9 (Kapurthala belt (54-inch karam))
1 marla = 25.29285264 square metres, exact. A square metre is the SI unit of area.
Computed on the Standard (66-inch karam) marla of 272.25 square feet, one of 5 definitions this series carries for this unit.
The ratio is the fraction 158,080,329/6,250,000, or 25.29285264 exactly.
Square Meter = Marla × 25.29285264
| Marla | Square Meter |
|---|---|
| 1 | 25.29285264 |
| 2 | 50.58570528 |
| 3 | 75.87855792 |
| 5 | 126.4642632 |
| 10 | 252.9285264 |
| 20 | 505.8570528 |
| 50 | 1,264.642632 |
| 100 | 2,529.285264 |
| 200 | 5,058.570528 |
| 500 | 12,646.42632 |
| 1,000 | 25,292.85264 |
5 marla × 25.29285264 = 126.4642632 square metres
Marla = Square Meter ÷ 25.29285264
Exactness of the method is not exactness of the result: where a ratio does not terminate, the table says so and the formula gives the fraction.
1 marla = 3.78125 ankanam on the Standard definition; 7.5625 on the Tirupati definition. Ankanam = Marla × 3.78125 (Standard) · reverse Marla = Ankanam ÷ 3.78125
| Marla | Ankanam (Standard) |
|---|---|
| 1 | 3.78125 |
| 2 | 7.5625 |
| 3 | 11.34375 |
| 5 | 18.90625 |
| 10 | 37.8125 |
| 20 | 75.625 |
| 50 | 189.0625 |
| 100 | 378.125 |
| 200 | 756.25 |
| 500 | 1,890.625 |
| 1,000 | 3,781.25 |
Every definition as a factor. Multiply marla by the figure shown.
| Ankanam definition | Where | Ankanam per marla |
|---|---|---|
| Standard (the definition used here) | Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, parts of Karnataka | 3.78125 |
| Tirupati | Tirupati and parts of Chittoor | 7.5625 |
1 marla = 4 dhur on the Bihar / Jharkhand (Patna chain) definition; 75.625 on the Tripura definition. Dhur = Marla × 4 (Bihar / Jharkhand (Patna chain)) · reverse Marla = Dhur × 0.25
| Marla | Dhur (Bihar / Jharkhand (Patna chain)) |
|---|---|
| 1 | 4 |
| 2 | 8 |
| 3 | 12 |
| 5 | 20 |
| 10 | 40 |
| 20 | 80 |
| 50 | 200 |
| 100 | 400 |
| 200 | 800 |
| 500 | 2,000 |
| 1,000 | 4,000 |
Every definition as a factor. Multiply marla by the figure shown.
| Dhur definition | Where | Dhur per marla |
|---|---|---|
| Bihar / Jharkhand (Patna chain) (the definition used here); reported, not sourced | Patna belt, and Jharkhand districts counting in the Patna katha | 4 |
| Tripura | Tripura | 75.625 |
1 marla = 0.2 katha on the Bihar state standard definition; 0.378125 on the West Bengal / Jharkhand definition · 0.09453125 on the Assam definition · 0.15625 on the Bihar (Chhapra) definition · 0.143195 on the Bihar (Hajipur) definition · 0.083333 on the Bihar (Bettiah) definition. Katha = Marla × 0.2 (Bihar state standard) · reverse Marla = Katha × 5
1,361.25 square feet either way, so the Marla to Biswa, UP / Rajasthan pucca figures apply unchanged. What differs between the two is the record each word belongs to, not the size.
Every definition as a factor. Multiply marla by the figure shown.
| Katha definition | Where | Katha per marla |
|---|---|---|
| Bihar state standard (the definition used here) | Patna, Arrah | 0.2 |
| West Bengal / Jharkhand | Rural West Bengal, Ranchi | 0.378125 |
| Assam | Assam (except Barak Valley) | 0.09453125 |
| Bihar (Chhapra) | Saran | 0.15625 |
| Bihar (Hajipur) | Vaishali | 0.143195 |
| Bihar (Bettiah) | West Champaran | 0.083333 |
1 marla = 0.2529285264 ares (exact). Ares = Marla × 0.2529285264 · reverse Marla = Ares ÷ 0.2529285264
| Marla | Ares |
|---|---|
| 1 | 0.2529285264 |
| 2 | 0.5058570528 |
| 3 | 0.7587855792 |
| 5 | 1.264642632 |
| 10 | 2.529285264 |
| 20 | 5.058570528 |
| 50 | 12.64642632 |
| 100 | 25.29285264 |
| 200 | 50.58570528 |
| 500 | 126.4642632 |
| 1,000 | 252.9285264 |
1 marla = 0.625 cent (exact). Cent = Marla × 0.625 · reverse Marla = Cent × 1.6
435.6 square feet either way, so the Marla to Biswa, Himachal Pradesh figures apply unchanged. What differs between the two is the record each word belongs to, not the size.
1 marla = 6.05 chatak (exact). Chatak = Marla × 6.05 · reverse Marla = Chatak ÷ 6.05
| Marla | Chatak |
|---|---|
| 1 | 6.05 |
| 2 | 12.1 |
| 3 | 18.15 |
| 5 | 30.25 |
| 10 | 60.5 |
| 20 | 121 |
| 50 | 302.5 |
| 100 | 605 |
| 200 | 1,210 |
| 500 | 3,025 |
| 1,000 | 6,050 |
1 marla = 30.25 gaj (exact). Gaj = Marla × 30.25 · reverse Marla = Gaj ÷ 30.25
| Marla | Gaj |
|---|---|
| 1 | 30.25 |
| 2 | 60.5 |
| 3 | 90.75 |
| 5 | 151.25 |
| 10 | 302.5 |
| 20 | 605 |
| 50 | 1,512.5 |
| 100 | 3,025 |
| 200 | 6,050 |
| 500 | 15,125 |
| 1,000 | 30,250 |
1 marla = 0.1134375 ground (exact). Ground = Marla × 0.1134375 · reverse Marla = Ground ÷ 0.1134375
| Marla | Ground |
|---|---|
| 1 | 0.1134375 |
| 2 | 0.226875 |
| 3 | 0.3403125 |
| 5 | 0.5671875 |
| 10 | 1.134375 |
| 20 | 2.26875 |
| 50 | 5.671875 |
| 100 | 11.34375 |
| 200 | 22.6875 |
| 500 | 56.71875 |
| 1,000 | 113.4375 |
1 marla = 0.25 guntha (exact). Guntha = Marla × 0.25 · reverse Marla = Guntha × 4
| Marla | Guntha |
|---|---|
| 1 | 0.25 |
| 2 | 0.5 |
| 3 | 0.75 |
| 5 | 1.25 |
| 10 | 2.5 |
| 20 | 5 |
| 50 | 12.5 |
| 100 | 25 |
| 200 | 50 |
| 500 | 125 |
| 1,000 | 250 |
1 marla = 1.890625 lessa (exact). Lessa = Marla × 1.890625 · reverse Marla = Lessa ÷ 1.890625
| Marla | Lessa |
|---|---|
| 1 | 1.890625 |
| 2 | 3.78125 |
| 3 | 5.671875 |
| 5 | 9.453125 |
| 10 | 18.90625 |
| 20 | 37.8125 |
| 50 | 94.53125 |
| 100 | 189.0625 |
| 200 | 378.125 |
| 500 | 945.3125 |
| 1,000 | 1,890.625 |
1 marla = 0.126042 nali (recurring). Nali = Marla × 121/960 · reverse Marla = Nali × 960/121
| Marla | Nali |
|---|---|
| 1 | 0.126042 |
| 2 | 0.252083 |
| 3 | 0.378125 |
| 5 | 0.630208 |
| 10 | 1.260417 |
| 20 | 2.520833 |
| 50 | 6.302083 |
| 100 | 12.604167 |
| 200 | 25.208333 |
| 500 | 63.020833 |
| 1,000 | 126.041667 |
1 marla = 0.0047265625 pura (exact). Pura = Marla × 0.0047265625 · reverse Marla = Pura ÷ 0.0047265625
| Marla | Pura |
|---|---|
| 1 | 0.0047265625 |
| 2 | 0.009453125 |
| 3 | 0.0141796875 |
| 5 | 0.0236328125 |
| 10 | 0.047265625 |
| 20 | 0.09453125 |
| 50 | 0.236328125 |
| 100 | 0.47265625 |
| 200 | 0.9453125 |
| 500 | 2.36328125 |
| 1,000 | 4.7265625 |
1 marla = 252,928.5264 square centimeter (exact). Square Centimeter = Marla × 252,928.5264 · reverse Marla = Square Centimeter ÷ 252,928.5264
| Marla | Square Centimeter |
|---|---|
| 1 | 252,928.5264 |
| 2 | 505,857.0528 |
| 3 | 758,785.5792 |
| 5 | 1,264,642.632 |
| 10 | 2,529,285.264 |
| 20 | 5,058,570.528 |
| 50 | 12,646,426.32 |
| 100 | 25,292,852.64 |
| 200 | 50,585,705.28 |
| 500 | 126,464,263.2 |
| 1,000 | 252,928,526.4 |
1 marla = 39,204 square inch (exact). Square Inch = Marla × 39,204 · reverse Marla = Square Inch ÷ 39,204
| Marla | Square Inch |
|---|---|
| 1 | 39,204 |
| 2 | 78,408 |
| 3 | 117,612 |
| 5 | 196,020 |
| 10 | 392,040 |
| 20 | 784,080 |
| 50 | 1,960,200 |
| 100 | 3,920,400 |
| 200 | 7,840,800 |
| 500 | 19,602,000 |
| 1,000 | 39,204,000 |
1 marla = 0.00002529285264 square kilometer (exact). Square Kilometer = Marla × 0.00002529285264 · reverse Marla = Square Kilometer ÷ 0.00002529285264
| Marla | Square Kilometer |
|---|---|
| 1 | 0.00002529285264 |
| 2 | 0.00005058570528 |
| 3 | 0.00007587855792 |
| 5 | 0.0001264642632 |
| 10 | 0.0002529285264 |
| 20 | 0.0005058570528 |
| 50 | 0.001264642632 |
| 100 | 0.002529285264 |
| 200 | 0.005058570528 |
| 500 | 0.01264642632 |
| 1,000 | 0.02529285264 |
1 marla = 0.000009765625 square mile (exact). Square Mile = Marla × 0.000009765625 · reverse Marla = Square Mile × 102,400
| Marla | Square Mile |
|---|---|
| 1 | 0.000009765625 |
| 2 | 0.00001953125 |
| 3 | 0.000029296875 |
| 5 | 0.000048828125 |
| 10 | 0.00009765625 |
| 20 | 0.0001953125 |
| 50 | 0.00048828125 |
| 100 | 0.0009765625 |
| 200 | 0.001953125 |
| 500 | 0.0048828125 |
| 1,000 | 0.009765625 |
Six of the thirty-two units are two names for one area with another, so their figures are identical to the last digit.
1 marla = 1 perch. They are one area of 272.25 square feet under two words, so there is no arithmetic to do: any quantity of one is the same quantity of the other. On the Standard (66-inch karam) only. The marla has 5 definitions in this series and the identity holds for the first of them. On the others the two are different areas, and which belt applies where is recorded with that unit. Perch = Marla · Marla = Perch
What separates them is which record, and which part of the country, uses the word.
1 marla = 0.625 decimal. A decimal and a cent are the same area, 435.6 square feet, so any Marla figure converts to the same number of either. Decimal = Marla × 0.625 · reverse Marla = Decimal × 1.6
1 marla = 0.625 dismil. A dismil and a cent are the same area, 435.6 square feet, so any Marla figure converts to the same number of either. Dismil = Marla × 0.625 · reverse Marla = Dismil × 1.6
1 marla = 30.25 gajam. A gajam and a gaj are the same area, 9 square feet, so any Marla figure converts to the same number of either. Gajam = Marla × 30.25 · reverse Marla = Gajam ÷ 30.25
1 marla = 0.00625 killa. A killa and an acre are the same area, 43,560 square feet, so any Marla figure converts to the same number of either. Killa = Marla × 0.00625 · reverse Marla = Killa × 160
1 marla = 30.25 square yards. A square yard and a gaj are the same area, 9 square feet, so any Marla figure converts to the same number of either. Square Yard = Marla × 30.25 · reverse Marla = Square Yard ÷ 30.25
The tables above are arithmetic, and for a marla the arithmetic is the easy half. What decides whether the figure you started with is the right one to convert at all is Thirty or Thirty and a Quarter.
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