Written and fact-checked by Aadil Saif. Arithmetic independently re-verified · Last updated September 2026
Part of the India Land Unit Converter series.
The murabba's geometry belongs with the acre and its numbering with the killa, so this page does neither. It went looking for the instrument behind the figure everyone quotes, did not find one, and found a different figure in two Rajasthan statutory instruments instead. Every count below prints the query that produced it and the date it was run.
1 murabba = 25 acres = 1,089,000 square feet = 25 killa = 200 kanal = 10.117141056 hectares, on the Punjab canal-colony rectangle.
| One murabba, in | Punjab canal colony | Rajasthan (Indira Gandhi Canal) |
|---|---|---|
| Acres | 25 | 15.625 |
| Square feet | 1,089,000 | 680,625 |
| Killa | 25 | 25 |
| Kanal | 200 | 125 |
| Square yards | 121,000 | 75,625 |
| Hectares | 10.117141056 | 6.32321316 |
| Shape | 1,100 × 990 ft | 825 × 825 ft |
| Murabba | Acre | Killa | Kanal (Standard) | Square Feet | Hectare |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 25 | 25 | 200 | 1,089,000 | 10.117141056 |
| 2 | 50 | 50 | 400 | 2,178,000 | 20.234282112 |
| 3 | 75 | 75 | 600 | 3,267,000 | 30.351423168 |
| 5 | 125 | 125 | 1,000 | 5,445,000 | 50.58570528 |
| 10 | 250 | 250 | 2,000 | 10,890,000 | 101.17141056 |
| 20 | 500 | 500 | 4,000 | 21,780,000 | 202.34282112 |
| 50 | 1,250 | 1,250 | 10,000 | 54,450,000 | 505.8570528 |
| 100 | 2,500 | 2,500 | 20,000 | 108,900,000 | 1,011.7141056 |
| 200 | 5,000 | 5,000 | 40,000 | 217,800,000 | 2,023.4282112 |
| 500 | 12,500 | 12,500 | 100,000 | 544,500,000 | 5,058.570528 |
| 1,000 | 25,000 | 25,000 | 200,000 | 1,089,000,000 | 10,117.141056 |
The two are not variants of one figure. They are two different rectangles, and the smaller one is the one with a rule behind it. Which applies is a question of which canal colony the land is in, and the rest of this page is how to tell.
Three things worth knowing before you use either column.
No document states the 25-acre murabba. Searched across the whole Indian Kanoon corpus, "murabba" "25 acres" returns zero documents. The figure is right (it follows from 25 killas of an acre, and the killa-is-an-acre identity is sourced on the Killa page), but it is reported, not stated by an instrument, and this page marks it so.
Two Rajasthan instruments state 15.625. The Rajasthan Colonisation Rules of 1972 print it inside the allotment form; section 70 of the Rajasthan Tenancy (Government) Rules 1955 gives it rounded, as "15.6 acres or one Murabba in commanded area". That is the strongest evidence for any murabba anywhere, and it is not for the murabba most people mean.
The record barely uses the word. In the Punjab & Haryana High Court's corpus, "rectangle no" returns 1,558 documents and murabba returns 66, about twenty-four to one toward the English name. A reader searching a Punjab record for murabba will mostly miss it.
Convert The answer, first · Which murabba is yours · To acre, killa and kanal · The small units
Understand The figure nobody sourced · Two rectangles, both exact · An anomaly · The word the record does not use · Four mistakes
Check 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 · Marla · 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 murabba's own size, 1,089,000 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 Punjab canal colony definition of the murabba, 1,089,000 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Murabba to Acre | Murabba × 25 | Exact |
| Murabba to Ankanam | Murabba × 15,125 | Exact · Ankanam is regional. This row is the Standard; also 30,250 |
| Murabba to Ares | Murabba × 1,011.7141056 | Exact |
| Murabba to Bigha | Murabba × 50 | Exact · Bigha is regional. This row is the Punjab / west Haryana; also 40, 120, 160 and 5 more |
| Murabba to Biswa | Murabba × 2,400 | Exact · Biswa is regional. This row is the Punjab / Haryana old records; also 800, 1,250, 2,500 |
| Murabba to Biswa Kacha | Murabba × 2,400 | Exact · Biswa Kacha is regional. This row is the Punjab / Haryana revenue; also 1,250 |
| Murabba to Cent | Murabba × 2,500 | Exact |
| Murabba to Chatak | Murabba × 24,200 | Exact |
| Murabba to Decimal | Murabba × 2,500 | Exact |
| Murabba to Dhur | Murabba × 16,000 | Exact · Dhur is regional. This row is the Bihar / Jharkhand (Patna chain); also 302,500 |
| Murabba to Dismil | Murabba × 2,500 | Exact |
| Murabba to Gaj | Murabba × 121,000 | Exact |
| Murabba to Gajam | Murabba × 121,000 | Exact |
| Murabba to Ground | Murabba × 453.75 | Exact |
| Murabba to Guntha | Murabba × 1,000 | Exact |
| Murabba to Hectare | Murabba × 10.117141056 | Exact |
| Murabba to Kanal | Murabba × 200 | Exact · Kanal is regional. This row is the Standard (66-inch karam); also 242, 263.500945, 298.765432 |
| Murabba to Katha | Murabba × 800 | Exact · Katha is regional. This row is the Bihar state standard; also 1,512.5, 378.125, 625 and 2 more |
| Murabba to Killa | Murabba × 25 | Exact |
| Murabba to Lessa | Murabba × 7,562.5 | Exact |
| Murabba to Marla | Murabba × 4,000 | Exact · Marla is regional. This row is the Standard (66-inch karam); also 4,840, 5,270.018904, 5,975.308642 and 1 more |
| Murabba to Nali | Murabba × 3,025/6 | Recurring |
| Murabba to Perch | Murabba × 4,000 | Exact |
| Murabba to Pura | Murabba × 18.90625 | Exact |
| Murabba to Square Centimeter | Murabba × 1,011,714,105.6 | Exact |
| Murabba to Square Feet | Murabba × 1,089,000 | Exact |
| Murabba to Square Inch | Murabba × 156,816,000 | Exact |
| Murabba to Square Karam | Murabba × 36,000 | Exact · Square Karam is regional. This row is the Standard (66-inch karam); also 43,560, 47,430.170132, 53,777.777778 |
| Murabba to Square Kilometer | Murabba × 0.10117141056 | Exact |
| Murabba to Square Meter | Murabba × 101,171.41056 | Exact |
| Murabba to Square Mile | Murabba × 0.0390625 | Exact |
| Murabba to Square Yard | Murabba × 121,000 | Exact |
Every land-unit site in India gives the murabba as 25 acres. So does this page, in its first table. What none of them says is where the figure comes from, and the answer turns out to be: from arithmetic, not from an instrument.
| Query, whole Indian Kanoon corpus | Documents |
|---|---|
"murabba" "25 acres" |
0 |
"murabba" "15.625" |
2, both statutory |
"murabba" "15.6 acres" |
3 |
"murabba" "acres" |
24 |
Run 10 September 2026.
Not one document in the corpus relates a murabba to twenty-five acres. That is not a claim that the figure is wrong. It is almost certainly right, because a murabba is twenty-five killas and a killa is an acre, and the Killa page sources that identity properly. It is a claim about what kind of number it is. Twenty-five acres is a derived figure (reported, not sourced, in this series' grading), and a page that prints it without saying so is passing off a calculation as a citation.
Two Rajasthan statutory instruments state a murabba's size directly, which is two more than the Punjab side has.
The Rajasthan Colonisation (Allotment and Sale of Government Land to Pong Dam Oustees and their Transferees in the Indira Gandhi Canal Colony) Rules, 1972 put the figure inside the allotment form itself. Not in a definition clause a reader has to find, but in the blank the allotting officer fills in:
"allotted 15.625 acres of land in Chak No. ........ of which Murabba No. ........ is"
The Supreme Court worked from those Rules in Pradesh Pong Bandh Visthapit Samiti v. Union of India (26 July 1996).
Section 70 of the Rajasthan Tenancy (Government) Rules, 1955 gives the same unit rounded:
"(1) 15.6 acres or one Murabba in commanded area"
Fifteen point six against fifteen point six two five is a gap of 0.16%, the older Rules rounding the same square to one decimal. Two instruments, seventeen years apart, describing one thing.
A murabba figure in a Rajasthan allotment is 62.5% of a Punjab murabba. Convert a Sri Ganganagar allotment at 25 acres and you have overstated it by nine and three-eighths acres, not a rounding, a second field. And the direction of the error is the dangerous one: the widely published figure is the larger one, so the mistake inflates.
The two are not a regional drift of one measure. They are two separate layouts, each internally exact, and the next section shows why each comes out to a whole number of acres.
The murabba is a survey block, and both versions of it were laid out with the same instrument: Gunter's chain, sixty-six feet long, the tool that makes the acre a round number in the first place. Ten square chains are an acre, exactly and by definition. So any block that is a whole number of square chains is a whole number of tenths of an acre, and both murabbas are.
| Punjab canal colony | Rajasthan (Indira Gandhi Canal) | |
|---|---|---|
| Sides | 1,100 ft × 990 ft | 825 ft × 825 ft |
| In chains | 16⅔ × 15 | 12.5 × 12.5 |
| Square chains | 250 | 156.25 |
| Acres (÷ 10) | 25 | 15.625 |
| Square feet | 1,089,000 | 680,625 |
The Punjab murabba is a rectangle. The Rajasthan murabba is a square. That is the whole difference, and it explains the name problem this page comes to next: the Punjab block is called a rectangle in the record because it is one, and murabba, the Arabic-derived word for a square, fits the Rajasthan block better than the Punjab one it is usually attached to.
Punjab is exactly 1.6 times Rajasthan. 250 square chains against 156.25. Not an approximate ratio and not a coincidence: 12.5² × 1.6 = 250.
Each murabba is numbered internally from 1 to 25. Divide each by 25:
| Punjab, sourced | Rajasthan, derived, see below | |
|---|---|---|
| One twenty-fifth | 43,560 sq ft | 27,225 sq ft (derived) |
| As a square | 1 acre (the killa) | a 165-foot square (derived) |
| In acres | 1 | 0.625 (derived) |
| In kanal | 8 | 5 (derived) |
The Punjab twenty-fifth is the killa, and the killa is the acre, sourced on the Killa page, which is also where the Rectangle No. X, Killa No. Y notation is set out and counted.
The Rajasthan twenty-fifth is a derivation, and this page says so rather than printing it as a fact. The premise is that a Rajasthan murabba divides into twenty-five numbered killas as the Punjab one does, and the evidence for it is the numbering in the judgments: "Killas Nos. 14, 16, 17 and 25 of Murabba No. 40" (Jotram and Harlal v. State of Rajasthan, Rajasthan High Court, 20 January 1988), which reaches 25 and stops. On that premise the Rajasthan killa is 27,225 square feet, a 165-foot square, 0.625 acre, and, pleasingly, exactly five kanal.
No instrument stating the Rajasthan killa was located. The derivation is offered with its premise attached and is not carried into any conversion table on this page.
One judgment gives a third figure and it matches neither column.
In Ishar Singh v. UT of Chandigarh (Punjab & Haryana High Court, 11 February 2019), the court records that
"sale deeds were at a distance of 3 murabbas (15 acres)"
Five acres to the murabba. It is not a Punjab murabba and it is not a Rajasthan one, and nothing else in the corpus repeats it. The likeliest reading is that the parenthesis converts a distance rather than an area, three murabbas away being a distance of three block-lengths, and the acreage a separate figure that has been run together with it in the reporting.
That is a guess and it is labelled one. What can be said flatly is that one judgment's parenthesis is not a third definition of the unit, and this page does not treat it as one. The kanal carries the same class of thing: a court figure the ladder cannot produce, reported and not built on.
If you are searching a Punjab or Haryana land record, or the judgments about one, the word to search for is not murabba.
| High Court corpus | murabba |
"rectangle no" |
Which word |
|---|---|---|---|
| Punjab & Haryana | 66 | 1,558 | rectangle, about 24 : 1 |
| Rajasthan | 558 | 6 | murabba, about 93 : 1 |
doctypes:punjab and doctypes:rajasthan, run 10 September 2026; both filters validated against a nonsense-term control returning zero.
The two jurisdictions use opposite words for the same kind of block, and each uses the word that fits its own shape. Punjab's block is a rectangle, 1,100 by 990 feet, and its record calls it a rectangle twenty-four times for every once it says murabba. Rajasthan's block is an 825-foot square, and murabba is the Arabic-derived word for a square: its record uses it ninety-three times for every once it writes rectangle.
That is not a naming quirk. It means the word in front of you is itself evidence of which layout applies, the cheapest of the four checks in the next section, and the one most readers already have.
In Punjab and Haryana the unit this page is named for is very nearly absent from the record that uses it. Only 7 documents in that corpus use both words at all, and the direction of the gloss in them shows which one is primary:
"allotted an area of 9 Marlas in Rectangle (Murabba) No.152" , Anaro Devi alias Anaro v. State of Haryana and others, Punjab & Haryana High Court, 12 May 2026
The court writes the English word and puts the Punjabi one in brackets to explain it. It does not do the reverse.
What follows practically. In Punjab or Haryana, a title search, a portal query or a jamabandi lookup that uses murabba will find a small fraction of what is there: use rectangle. In Rajasthan the advice reverses, search murabba, and expect it beside a chak number. Either way the block number arrives attached to a killa number, and the Killa page sets out that notation, counts how often the two travel together, and is where a reader holding an address rather than an area should go.
The obvious name for laying out rectangles would be murabbabandi, on the pattern of chakbandi. Searched across the whole of Indian Kanoon, murabbabandi returns three documents, and none of them is about rectangulation:
So the word exists and means something adjacent, the standard watercourse serving a rectangle, rather than the act of laying rectangles out. The process a reader is actually looking for is recorded as consolidation of holdings, or chakbandi.
What this page could not establish, and does not assert. The East Punjab Holdings (Consolidation and Prevention of Fragmentation) Act 1948 was searched for a provision defining a rectangle or a murabba and none was retrieved. Whether the canal-colony rectangles were laid under that Act, under the colonisation legislation that preceded it, or under executive instruction alone is a question this page leaves open rather than answering from inference. Nor was any allotment record from the original colonies reachable. Both are listed in "Sources and Method" as searched and not found.
Five checks, cheapest first.
Do not use the shape as the test. Both blocks look square on a map at any useful zoom. The Punjab rectangle is 1,100 by 990 feet, which is within 10% of square, and nobody measures it off a portal image.
Acres = Murabba × 25 · reverse Murabba = Acres ÷ 25, on the Punjab rectangle.
Acres = Murabba × 15.625 · reverse Murabba = Acres ÷ 15.625, on the Rajasthan square.
Both terminate, and both are exact for the reason given above: each block is a whole number of square chains.
The murabba's three positions in the Punjab ladder, which the Acre page publishes and this page will not re-derive:
On the Rajasthan square each of those figures is exactly 0.625 of its Punjab counterpart: 125 kanal, 2,500 marla, 680,625 square feet, 75,625 square yards, 6.32321316 hectares.
A murabba is a large block and the small units are given because they terminate rather than because anyone uses them: 1,089,000 square feet is 156,816,000 square inches on the Punjab rectangle, and the metric conversions are exact because the foot-to-metre relation is exact by definition. All of them are in the conversion core below.
Converting a Rajasthan allotment at 25 acres. The single largest error available on this page: it inflates by 9.375 acres per murabba, and it inflates rather than deflates, which is the direction that produces a claim rather than a shortfall.
Treating 25 acres as a sourced figure. It is arithmetic from the killa, and the corpus contains no document stating it. Where a transaction turns on the number, cite the killa identity, not the murabba.
Searching a Punjab record for murabba, or a Rajasthan record for rectangle. The vocabulary is opposite in the two places: Punjab says rectangle 1,558 documents to 66, Rajasthan says murabba 558 to 6. Searching the wrong one finds almost nothing and reads as an absence.
Reading murabbabandi as the laying-out of rectangles. It appears three times in the whole corpus and means a sanctioned watercourse. The process is consolidation of holdings.
How many acres in one murabba? Twenty-five, on the Punjab and Haryana canal-colony rectangle, 1,100 by 990 feet, twenty-five killas of an acre each. In the Indira Gandhi Canal colony in Rajasthan a murabba is 15.625 acres, an 825-foot square, and that is the figure two sets of Rajasthan Rules actually state.
Why does this page say 25 acres is "reported" rather than sourced? Because no document in the Indian Kanoon corpus relates a murabba to 25 acres. The figure follows correctly from twenty-five killas of an acre, and the killa-is-an-acre identity is sourced on the Killa page, but a figure that follows from a sourced identity is a derivation, and this series marks derivations as what they are.
Is a murabba the same as a rectangle? In Punjab and Haryana, yes. They are two words for the same survey block, and rectangle is the one the record uses: 1,558 documents to 66 in the High Court's corpus, with one judgment glossing the English with the Punjabi ("Rectangle (Murabba) No.152") and never the reverse. In Rajasthan the block is not a rectangle at all but an 825-foot square, and there the record says murabba, 558 documents to 6. So the two words are interchangeable in one place, and in the other the English one would be wrong.
How many killas in a murabba? Twenty-five, in both layouts. What differs is the killa. In Punjab it is one acre, and the Killa page sources that. In Rajasthan it works out at 0.625 acre, but that is a derivation, not a finding: it comes from dividing the 15.625-acre murabba by the twenty-five the judgments number up to, and no instrument stating the Rajasthan killa was located.
How many kanal in a murabba? Two hundred on the Punjab rectangle, at eight kanal to the killa. One hundred and twenty-five on the Rajasthan square. That one follows from the murabba's own sourced area divided by the kanal, so it does not depend on the derived killa.
What is murabbabandi? Not what it sounds like. The word appears in three documents in the whole corpus and means a sanctioned watercourse serving a rectangle, not the laying-out of rectangles. The process of reorganising holdings into blocks is recorded as consolidation of holdings or chakbandi.
Is the murabba still used? As an address, constantly: a Punjab, Haryana or Rajasthan sale deed identifies land by rectangle and killa number rather than by area. As a unit of area it is mostly a way of saying "twenty-five acres" in one word.
Instruments. Rajasthan Colonisation (Allotment and Sale of Government Land to Pong Dam Oustees and their Transferees in the Indira Gandhi Canal Colony) Rules, 1972, the allotment form, quoted in the body. Rajasthan Tenancy (Government) Rules, 1955, s.70: "15.6 acres or one Murabba in commanded area". These are the only rule-level statements of a murabba's size located for this page, and both are Rajasthan's.
Judgments, cited in the body by name, court and date: Pradesh Pong Bandh Visthapit Samiti v. Union of India (Supreme Court, 26 July 1996); Jotram and Harlal v. State of Rajasthan (Rajasthan HC, 20 January 1988); Anaro Devi alias Anaro v. State of Haryana and others (P&H HC, 12 May 2026); Ishar Singh v. UT of Chandigarh (P&H HC, 11 February 2019); Karamjit Kaur v. Superintending Canal Officer, Patiala (P&H HC, 4 May and 8 July 2026); Mahendra Kumar v. State (Rajasthan HC, 8 January 2010).
Currency of the two Rajasthan instruments, and a scope question this page leaves open. Both sets of Rules are quoted as they stand in the retrievable text, and this page has not established whether either has since been amended or superseded, the 1972 Rules in particular govern a specific allotment scheme (Pong Dam oustees resettled in the Indira Gandhi Canal Colony), so whether the 15.625-acre murabba is the general measure of that colony or the measure of that scheme is a second question, and one this page does not answer. What can be said is that two instruments seventeen years apart give the same square to within 0.16%, and that the 1955 Rules are not scheme-specific. A reader relying on the figure for a transaction should check both points against the current text.
Corpus counts. All run on Indian Kanoon, 10 September 2026, with the query printed beside each. doctypes: tokens were validated before use by the method the Kanal page sets out. A nonsense term must return zero under the same filter, and the filtered count must differ from the unfiltered one. These counts carry a re-run obligation: they are a snapshot of a growing corpus, and any republication of this page should re-run all five and re-date them rather than carry the September 2026 figures forward.
Evidence grades. The Punjab murabba at 25 acres is reported, not sourced: no instrument stating it was located, and the corpus contains no document relating the two. The Rajasthan murabba at 15.625 acres is sourced, from the two sets of Rules above. The geometry of both is arithmetic from the chain and needs no separate authority; the Acre page carries the 1,100 × 990 layout and its history.
What was searched for and not found, and is asserted nowhere on this page. Any Punjab or Haryana instrument stating a murabba's size. Including Punjab's Land Records Manual, which is the instrument this series cites for the kanal, the marla, the sarsahi and the four karam belts, and which carries the ladder up to the killa but was not found to state the block above it · any provision of the East Punjab Holdings (Consolidation and Prevention of Fragmentation) Act 1948 defining a rectangle or a murabba · the statutory basis on which the canal-colony rectangles were originally laid out · any allotment record from the original colonies · any instrument stating the size of a Rajasthan killa, which this page derives from the numbering and marks as a derivation · what happens to a murabba number when consolidated land is consolidated again.
On the sibling pages. The Acre page owns the murabba's geometry and the ladder above it; the Killa page owns the Rectangle No. X, Killa No. Y notation and the counts behind it; the rungs below belong to the kanal, to the marla's two circulating values, and to the square karam's unresolved length. All are cited here and none is restated. This page is the last of the six-page Punjab cluster, and with it the cluster can be reviewed as a whole.
| Conversion | 1 Murabba | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Acre | 25 | Exact; Exact by definition: 43,560 sq ft = 4,840 sq yd |
| Ankanam | 15,125 (Standard) | Region-specific; also 30,250 (Tirupati) |
| Ares | 1,011.7141056 | Exact; 100 m², the metric are |
| Bigha | 50 (Punjab / west Haryana) | Region-specific; also 40 (UP pucca / Bihar / Rajasthan pucca) · 120 (UP kachha (6⅔ biswa)) · 160 (UP kachha (5 biswa) / Uttarakhand hills) |
| Biswa | 2,400 (Punjab / Haryana old records) | Region-specific; also 800 (UP / Rajasthan pucca) · 1,250 (Rajasthan kachha) · 2,500 (Himachal Pradesh) |
| Biswa Kacha | 2,400 (Punjab / Haryana revenue definition) | Region-specific; also 1,250 (Rajasthan kachha reading) |
| Cent | 2,500 | Exact; One hundredth of an acre, exactly |
| Chatak | 24,200 | Exact; 5 sq yd exactly; 16 to the cottah, 968 to the acre. Reported, not stated by any instrument located |
| Decimal | 2,500 | Exact; One hundredth of an acre, exactly |
| Dhur | 16,000 (Bihar / Jharkhand (Patna chain)) | Region-specific; also 302,500 (Tripura) |
| Dismil | 2,500 | Exact; The decimal under another name |
| Gaj | 121,000 | Exact; The square yard, 9 sq ft |
| Gajam | 121,000 | Exact; The square yard in Telugu, 9 sq ft |
| Ground | 453.75 | 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 | 1,000 | Exact; 121 sq yd; 40 guntha = 1 acre exactly |
| Hectare | 10.117141056 | Exact; 10,000 m² exactly |
| Kanal | 200 (Standard (66-inch karam)) | Region-specific; also 242 (Majha belt (60-inch karam)) · 263.500945 (Doaba belt (57.5-inch karam)) · 298.765432 (Kapurthala belt (54-inch karam)) |
| Katha | 800 (Bihar state standard) | Region-specific; also 1,512.5 (West Bengal / Jharkhand) · 378.125 (Assam) · 625 (Bihar (Chhapra)) |
| Killa | 25 | Exact; The acre under its Punjabi name |
| Lessa | 7,562.5 | Exact; The 12-foot mauzadari jar squared (Assam Land Records Manual r.117); 20 to a katha, 100 to a bigha |
| Marla | 4,000 (Standard (66-inch karam)) | Region-specific; also 4,840 (Majha belt (60-inch karam)) · 5,270.018904 (Doaba belt (57.5-inch karam)) · 5,975.308642 (Kapurthala belt (54-inch karam)) |
| Nali | 504.166667 | Recurring; 240 sq yd; 16 mutthi of 135 sq ft. No instrument located states the figure |
| Perch | 4,000 | Exact; 30.25 sq yd; 160 perches = 1 acre |
| Pura | 18.90625 | 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 | 1,011,714,105.6 | Exact; One ten-thousandth of a square metre |
| Square Feet | 1,089,000 | Exact; The base of this series |
| Square Inch | 156,816,000 | Exact; One 144th of a square foot |
| Square Karam | 36,000 (Standard (66-inch karam)) | Region-specific; also 43,560 (Majha belt (60-inch karam)) · 47,430.170132 (Doaba belt (57.5-inch karam)) · 53,777.777778 (Kapurthala belt (54-inch karam)) |
| Square Kilometer | 0.10117141056 | Exact; 1,000,000 m² |
| Square Meter | 101,171.41056 | Exact; The SI unit of area |
| Square Mile | 0.0390625 | 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 | 121,000 | Exact; 9 sq ft exactly |
1 murabba = 25 acres, exact. An acre is exact by definition: 43,560 sq ft = 4,840 sq yd.
Computed on the Punjab canal colony murabba of 1,089,000 square feet, which this series grades reported, not sourced: no instrument, judgment or manual located states that figure.
A murabba is 25 acres exactly. It is a survey block rather than a trading unit: land is rarely bought by the murabba, but it is very often addressed by one.
Where the acre fits into the murabba's own record is set out in Murabba to Acre, Killa and Kanal above; what follows is the arithmetic.
Acre = Murabba × 25
| Murabba | Acre |
|---|---|
| 1 | 25 |
| 2 | 50 |
| 3 | 75 |
| 5 | 125 |
| 10 | 250 |
| 20 | 500 |
| 50 | 1,250 |
| 100 | 2,500 |
| 200 | 5,000 |
| 500 | 12,500 |
| 1,000 | 25,000 |
5 murabba × 25 = 125 acres
Murabba = Acre × 0.04
1 murabba = 50 bigha on the Punjab / west Haryana definition. The bigha has no single national value. It is also 40 (UP pucca / Bihar / Rajasthan pucca) · 120 (UP kachha (6⅔ biswa)) · 160 (UP kachha (5 biswa) / Uttarakhand hills) and 5 more per murabba. Every definition this series has located is set out with the evidence behind it.
Computed on the Punjab canal colony murabba of 1,089,000 square feet, which this series grades reported, not sourced: no instrument, judgment or manual located states that figure.
Bigha = Murabba × 50 (Punjab / west Haryana)
| Murabba | Bigha (Punjab / west Haryana) |
|---|---|
| 1 | 50 |
| 2 | 100 |
| 3 | 150 |
| 5 | 250 |
| 10 | 500 |
| 20 | 1,000 |
| 50 | 2,500 |
| 100 | 5,000 |
| 200 | 10,000 |
| 500 | 25,000 |
| 1,000 | 50,000 |
| Bigha definition | Where it applies | 1 bigha in sq ft | Bigha per murabba | Terminates? | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UP pucca / Bihar / Rajasthan pucca | Purvanchal, Awadh, Patna belt, east Rajasthan | 27,225 | 40 | Exact | sourced |
| UP kachha (6⅔ biswa) | West Uttar Pradesh | 9,075 | 120 | Exact | sourced |
| UP kachha (5 biswa) / Uttarakhand hills | West UP, Kumaon and Garhwal hills | 6,806.25 | 160 | Exact | sourced |
| Rajasthan kachha / Gujarat vigha / Uttarakhand Terai | Marwar, Gujarat, Terai | 17,424 | 62.5 | Exact | sourced |
| Madhya Pradesh | Madhya Pradesh | 12,000 | 90.75 | Exact | reported, not sourced |
| West Bengal / Assam / Jharkhand | West Bengal, Assam, Ranchi | 14,400 | 75.625 | Exact | sourced |
| Himachal Pradesh / Haryana Rohtak belt | Himachal Pradesh, Rohtak, Hisar | 8,712 | 125 | Exact | sourced |
| Punjab / west Haryana (the definition used here) | Punjab, kanal belt of Haryana | 21,780 | 50 | Exact | sourced |
| Haryana Ambala belt | Ambala, Gurugram, Faridabad, Karnal, Panipat | 8,100 | 134.444444 | 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 murabba × 50 = 250 bigha
Murabba = Bigha × 0.02 (Punjab / west Haryana)
Murabba = Bigha × 0.025 (UP pucca / Bihar / Rajasthan pucca)
Murabba = Bigha ÷ 120 (UP kachha (6⅔ biswa))
Murabba = Bigha × 0.00625 (UP kachha (5 biswa) / Uttarakhand hills)
Murabba = Bigha × 0.016 (Rajasthan kachha / Gujarat vigha / Uttarakhand Terai)
Murabba = Bigha ÷ 90.75 (Madhya Pradesh)
Murabba = Bigha ÷ 75.625 (West Bengal / Assam / Jharkhand)
Murabba = Bigha × 0.008 (Himachal Pradesh / Haryana Rohtak belt)
Murabba = Bigha × 9/1,210 (Haryana Ambala belt)
1 murabba = 2,400 biswa on the Punjab / Haryana old records definition. The biswa has no single national value. It is also 800 (UP / Rajasthan pucca) · 1,250 (Rajasthan kachha) · 2,500 (Himachal Pradesh) per murabba. Every definition this series has located is set out with the evidence behind it.
Computed on the Punjab canal colony murabba of 1,089,000 square feet, which this series grades reported, not sourced: no instrument, judgment or manual located states that figure.
Biswa = Murabba × 2,400 (Punjab / Haryana old records)
| Murabba | Biswa (Punjab / Haryana old records) |
|---|---|
| 1 | 2,400 |
| 2 | 4,800 |
| 3 | 7,200 |
| 5 | 12,000 |
| 10 | 24,000 |
| 20 | 48,000 |
| 50 | 120,000 |
| 100 | 240,000 |
| 200 | 480,000 |
| 500 | 1,200,000 |
| 1,000 | 2,400,000 |
| Biswa definition | Where it applies | 1 biswa in sq ft | Biswa per murabba | Terminates? | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UP / Rajasthan pucca | Uttar Pradesh, east Rajasthan | 1,361.25 | 800 | Exact | sourced |
| Rajasthan kachha | Marwar | 871.2 | 1,250 | Exact | no instrument located |
| Punjab / Haryana old records (the definition used here) | Punjab, Haryana | 453.75 | 2,400 | Exact | sourced |
| Himachal Pradesh | Himachal Pradesh | 435.6 | 2,500 | 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.
| Murabba | Biswa (1,361.25 sq ft) |
|---|---|
| 1 | 800 |
| 2 | 1,600 |
| 3 | 2,400 |
| 5 | 4,000 |
| 10 | 8,000 |
| 20 | 16,000 |
| 50 | 40,000 |
| 100 | 80,000 |
| 200 | 160,000 |
| 500 | 400,000 |
| 1,000 | 800,000 |
| Murabba | Biswa (871.2 sq ft) |
|---|---|
| 1 | 1,250 |
| 2 | 2,500 |
| 3 | 3,750 |
| 5 | 6,250 |
| 10 | 12,500 |
| 20 | 25,000 |
| 50 | 62,500 |
| 100 | 125,000 |
| 200 | 250,000 |
| 500 | 625,000 |
| 1,000 | 1,250,000 |
| Murabba | Biswa (435.6 sq ft) |
|---|---|
| 1 | 2,500 |
| 2 | 5,000 |
| 3 | 7,500 |
| 5 | 12,500 |
| 10 | 25,000 |
| 20 | 50,000 |
| 50 | 125,000 |
| 100 | 250,000 |
| 200 | 500,000 |
| 500 | 1,250,000 |
| 1,000 | 2,500,000 |
5 murabba × 2,400 = 12,000 biswa
Murabba = Biswa ÷ 2,400 (Punjab / Haryana old records)
Murabba = Biswa × 0.00125 (UP / Rajasthan pucca)
Murabba = Biswa × 0.0008 (Rajasthan kachha)
Murabba = Biswa × 0.0004 (Himachal Pradesh)
1 murabba = 2,400 biswa kacha on the Punjab / Haryana revenue definition. The biswa kacha has no single national value. It is also 1,250 (Rajasthan kachha reading) per murabba. Every definition this series has located is set out with the evidence behind it.
Computed on the Punjab canal colony murabba of 1,089,000 square feet, which this series grades reported, not sourced: no instrument, judgment or manual located states that figure.
Biswa Kacha = Murabba × 2,400 (Punjab / Haryana revenue definition)
453.75 square feet either way, so the Murabba 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 murabba | Terminates? | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Punjab / Haryana revenue definition (the definition used here) | Punjab, Haryana | 453.75 | 2,400 | Exact | sourced |
| Rajasthan kachha reading | Marwar | 871.2 | 1,250 | 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 Murabba to Biswa, Rajasthan kachha figures apply unchanged. What differs between the two is the record each word belongs to, not the size.
5 murabba × 2,400 = 12,000 biswa kacha
Murabba = Biswa Kacha ÷ 2,400 (Punjab / Haryana revenue definition)
Murabba = Biswa Kacha × 0.0008 (Rajasthan kachha reading)
1 murabba = 10.117141056 hectares, exact. A hectare is 10,000 m² exactly.
Computed on the Punjab canal colony murabba of 1,089,000 square feet, which this series grades reported, not sourced: no instrument, judgment or manual located states that figure.
The ratio is the fraction 158,080,329/15,625,000, or 10.117141056 exactly.
Hectare = Murabba × 10.117141056
| Murabba | Hectare |
|---|---|
| 1 | 10.117141056 |
| 2 | 20.234282112 |
| 3 | 30.351423168 |
| 5 | 50.58570528 |
| 10 | 101.17141056 |
| 20 | 202.34282112 |
| 50 | 505.8570528 |
| 100 | 1,011.7141056 |
| 200 | 2,023.4282112 |
| 500 | 5,058.570528 |
| 1,000 | 10,117.141056 |
5 murabba × 10.117141056 = 50.58570528 hectares
Murabba = Hectare ÷ 10.117141056
1 murabba = 200 kanal on the Standard (66-inch karam) definition. The kanal has no single national value. It is also 242 (Majha belt (60-inch karam)) · 263.500945 (Doaba belt (57.5-inch karam)) · 298.765432 (Kapurthala belt (54-inch karam)) per murabba. Every definition this series has located is set out with the evidence behind it.
Computed on the Punjab canal colony murabba of 1,089,000 square feet, which this series grades reported, not sourced: no instrument, judgment or manual located states that figure.
Where the kanal fits into the murabba's own record is set out in Murabba to Acre, Killa and Kanal above; what follows is the arithmetic.
Kanal = Murabba × 200 (Standard (66-inch karam))
| Murabba | Kanal (Standard (66-inch karam)) |
|---|---|
| 1 | 200 |
| 2 | 400 |
| 3 | 600 |
| 5 | 1,000 |
| 10 | 2,000 |
| 20 | 4,000 |
| 50 | 10,000 |
| 100 | 20,000 |
| 200 | 40,000 |
| 500 | 100,000 |
| 1,000 | 200,000 |
| Kanal definition | Where it applies | 1 kanal in sq ft | Kanal per murabba | Terminates? | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard (66-inch karam) (the definition used here) | Most of Punjab, Haryana, Himachal, J&K | 5,445 | 200 | Exact | sourced |
| Majha belt (60-inch karam) | Amritsar, Gurdaspur, Tarn Taran | 4,500 | 242 | Exact | reported, not sourced |
| Doaba belt (57.5-inch karam) | Jalandhar, Kapurthala and Hoshiarpur, and Kangra in Himachal | 4,132.8125 | 263.500945 | Recurring | reported, not sourced |
| Kapurthala belt (54-inch karam) | Parts of Kapurthala | 3,645 | 298.765432 | Recurring | reported, not sourced |
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.
| Murabba | Kanal (4,500 sq ft) |
|---|---|
| 1 | 242 |
| 2 | 484 |
| 3 | 726 |
| 5 | 1,210 |
| 10 | 2,420 |
| 20 | 4,840 |
| 50 | 12,100 |
| 100 | 24,200 |
| 200 | 48,400 |
| 500 | 121,000 |
| 1,000 | 242,000 |
| Murabba | Kanal (4,132.8125 sq ft) |
|---|---|
| 1 | 263.500945 |
| 2 | 527.00189 |
| 3 | 790.502836 |
| 5 | 1,317.504726 |
| 10 | 2,635.009452 |
| 20 | 5,270.018904 |
| 50 | 13,175.047259 |
| 100 | 26,350.094518 |
| 200 | 52,700.189036 |
| 500 | 131,750.47259 |
| 1,000 | 263,500.94518 |
| Murabba | Kanal (3,645 sq ft) |
|---|---|
| 1 | 298.765432 |
| 2 | 597.530864 |
| 3 | 896.296296 |
| 5 | 1,493.82716 |
| 10 | 2,987.654321 |
| 20 | 5,975.308642 |
| 50 | 14,938.271605 |
| 100 | 29,876.54321 |
| 200 | 59,753.08642 |
| 500 | 149,382.716049 |
| 1,000 | 298,765.432099 |
5 murabba × 200 = 1,000 kanal
Murabba = Kanal × 0.005 (Standard (66-inch karam))
Murabba = Kanal ÷ 242 (Majha belt (60-inch karam))
Murabba = Kanal × 529/139,392 (Doaba belt (57.5-inch karam))
Murabba = Kanal × 81/24,200 (Kapurthala belt (54-inch karam))
1 murabba = 4,000 marla on the Standard (66-inch karam) definition. The marla has no single national value. It is also 4,840 (Majha belt (60-inch karam)) · 5,270.018904 (Doaba belt (57.5-inch karam)) · 5,975.308642 (Kapurthala belt (54-inch karam)) and 1 more per murabba. Every definition this series has located is set out with the evidence behind it.
Computed on the Punjab canal colony murabba of 1,089,000 square feet, which this series grades reported, not sourced: no instrument, judgment or manual located states that figure.
Marla = Murabba × 4,000 (Standard (66-inch karam))
| Murabba | Marla (Standard (66-inch karam)) |
|---|---|
| 1 | 4,000 |
| 2 | 8,000 |
| 3 | 12,000 |
| 5 | 20,000 |
| 10 | 40,000 |
| 20 | 80,000 |
| 50 | 200,000 |
| 100 | 400,000 |
| 200 | 800,000 |
| 500 | 2,000,000 |
| 1,000 | 4,000,000 |
| Marla definition | Where it applies | 1 marla in sq ft | Marla per murabba | Terminates? | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard (66-inch karam) (the definition used here) | Most of Punjab, Haryana, Himachal, J&K | 272.25 | 4,000 | Exact | sourced |
| Majha belt (60-inch karam) | Amritsar, Gurdaspur, Tarn Taran | 225 | 4,840 | Exact | reported, not sourced |
| Doaba belt (57.5-inch karam) | Jalandhar, Kapurthala and Hoshiarpur, and Kangra in Himachal | 206.640625 | 5,270.018904 | Recurring | reported, not sourced |
| Kapurthala belt (54-inch karam) | Parts of Kapurthala | 182.25 | 5,975.308642 | Recurring | reported, not sourced |
| HSVP urban estate | Haryana urban estates | 225 | 4,840 | Exact | sourced |
Not every definition above rests on an instrument. 3 of the 5 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 murabba × 4,000 = 20,000 marla
Murabba = Marla × 0.00025 (Standard (66-inch karam))
Murabba = Marla ÷ 4,840 (Majha belt (60-inch karam))
Murabba = Marla × 529/2,787,840 (Doaba belt (57.5-inch karam))
Murabba = Marla × 81/484,000 (Kapurthala belt (54-inch karam))
Murabba = Marla ÷ 4,840 (HSVP urban estate)
1 murabba = 1,089,000 square feet, exact. A square foot is the base of this series.
Computed on the Punjab canal colony murabba of 1,089,000 square feet, which this series grades reported, not sourced: no instrument, judgment or manual located states that figure.
1,089,000 square feet to the murabba, twenty-five acres. The murabba is a survey block rather than a trading unit, and almost never quoted in square feet outside an arithmetic check like this one.
Square Feet = Murabba × 1,089,000
| Murabba | Square Feet |
|---|---|
| 1 | 1,089,000 |
| 2 | 2,178,000 |
| 3 | 3,267,000 |
| 5 | 5,445,000 |
| 10 | 10,890,000 |
| 20 | 21,780,000 |
| 50 | 54,450,000 |
| 100 | 108,900,000 |
| 200 | 217,800,000 |
| 500 | 544,500,000 |
| 1,000 | 1,089,000,000 |
5 murabba × 1,089,000 = 5,445,000 square feet
Murabba = Square Feet ÷ 1,089,000
1 murabba = 36,000 square karam on the Standard (66-inch karam) definition. The square karam has no single national value. It is also 43,560 (Majha belt (60-inch karam)) · 47,430.170132 (Doaba belt (57.5-inch karam)) · 53,777.777778 (Kapurthala belt (54-inch karam)) per murabba. Every definition this series has located is set out with the evidence behind it.
Computed on the Punjab canal colony murabba of 1,089,000 square feet, which this series grades reported, not sourced: no instrument, judgment or manual located states that figure.
Square Karam = Murabba × 36,000 (Standard (66-inch karam))
| Murabba | Square Karam (Standard (66-inch karam)) |
|---|---|
| 1 | 36,000 |
| 2 | 72,000 |
| 3 | 108,000 |
| 5 | 180,000 |
| 10 | 360,000 |
| 20 | 720,000 |
| 50 | 1,800,000 |
| 100 | 3,600,000 |
| 200 | 7,200,000 |
| 500 | 18,000,000 |
| 1,000 | 36,000,000 |
| Square Karam definition | Where it applies | 1 square karam in sq ft | Square Karam per murabba | Terminates? | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard (66-inch karam) (the definition used here) | Most of Punjab, Haryana, Himachal, J&K | 30.25 | 36,000 | Exact | sourced |
| Majha belt (60-inch karam) | Amritsar, Gurdaspur, Tarn Taran | 25 | 43,560 | Exact | reported, not sourced |
| Doaba belt (57.5-inch karam) | Jalandhar, Kapurthala and Hoshiarpur, and Kangra in Himachal | 22.960069 | 47,430.170132 | Recurring | reported, not sourced |
| Kapurthala belt (54-inch karam) | Parts of Kapurthala | 20.25 | 53,777.777778 | Recurring | reported, not sourced |
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.
| Murabba | Square Karam (25 sq ft) |
|---|---|
| 1 | 43,560 |
| 2 | 87,120 |
| 3 | 130,680 |
| 5 | 217,800 |
| 10 | 435,600 |
| 20 | 871,200 |
| 50 | 2,178,000 |
| 100 | 4,356,000 |
| 200 | 8,712,000 |
| 500 | 21,780,000 |
| 1,000 | 43,560,000 |
| Murabba | Square Karam (22.960069 sq ft) |
|---|---|
| 1 | 47,430.170132 |
| 2 | 94,860.340265 |
| 3 | 142,290.510397 |
| 5 | 237,150.850662 |
| 10 | 474,301.701323 |
| 20 | 948,603.402647 |
| 50 | 2,371,508.506616 |
| 100 | 4,743,017.013233 |
| 200 | 9,486,034.026465 |
| 500 | 23,715,085.066163 |
| 1,000 | 47,430,170.132325 |
| Murabba | Square Karam (20.25 sq ft) |
|---|---|
| 1 | 53,777.777778 |
| 2 | 107,555.555556 |
| 3 | 161,333.333333 |
| 5 | 268,888.888889 |
| 10 | 537,777.777778 |
| 20 | 1,075,555.555556 |
| 50 | 2,688,888.888889 |
| 100 | 5,377,777.777778 |
| 200 | 10,755,555.555556 |
| 500 | 26,888,888.888889 |
| 1,000 | 53,777,777.777778 |
5 murabba × 36,000 = 180,000 square karam
Murabba = Square Karam ÷ 36,000 (Standard (66-inch karam))
Murabba = Square Karam ÷ 43,560 (Majha belt (60-inch karam))
Murabba = Square Karam × 529/25,090,560 (Doaba belt (57.5-inch karam))
Murabba = Square Karam × 9/484,000 (Kapurthala belt (54-inch karam))
1 murabba = 101,171.41056 square metres, exact. A square metre is the SI unit of area.
Computed on the Punjab canal colony murabba of 1,089,000 square feet, which this series grades reported, not sourced: no instrument, judgment or manual located states that figure.
The ratio is the fraction 316,160,658/3,125, or 101,171.41056 exactly.
Square Meter = Murabba × 101,171.41056
| Murabba | Square Meter |
|---|---|
| 1 | 101,171.41056 |
| 2 | 202,342.82112 |
| 3 | 303,514.23168 |
| 5 | 505,857.0528 |
| 10 | 1,011,714.1056 |
| 20 | 2,023,428.2112 |
| 50 | 5,058,570.528 |
| 100 | 10,117,141.056 |
| 200 | 20,234,282.112 |
| 500 | 50,585,705.28 |
| 1,000 | 101,171,410.56 |
5 murabba × 101,171.41056 = 505,857.0528 square metres
Murabba = Square Meter ÷ 101,171.41056
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 murabba = 15,125 ankanam on the Standard definition; 30,250 on the Tirupati definition. Ankanam = Murabba × 15,125 (Standard) · reverse Murabba = Ankanam ÷ 15,125
| Murabba | Ankanam (Standard) |
|---|---|
| 1 | 15,125 |
| 2 | 30,250 |
| 3 | 45,375 |
| 5 | 75,625 |
| 10 | 151,250 |
| 20 | 302,500 |
| 50 | 756,250 |
| 100 | 1,512,500 |
| 200 | 3,025,000 |
| 500 | 7,562,500 |
| 1,000 | 15,125,000 |
Every definition as a factor. Multiply murabba by the figure shown.
| Ankanam definition | Where | Ankanam per murabba |
|---|---|---|
| Standard (the definition used here) | Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, parts of Karnataka | 15,125 |
| Tirupati | Tirupati and parts of Chittoor | 30,250 |
1 murabba = 16,000 dhur on the Bihar / Jharkhand (Patna chain) definition; 302,500 on the Tripura definition. Dhur = Murabba × 16,000 (Bihar / Jharkhand (Patna chain)) · reverse Murabba = Dhur × 0.0000625
| Murabba | Dhur (Bihar / Jharkhand (Patna chain)) |
|---|---|
| 1 | 16,000 |
| 2 | 32,000 |
| 3 | 48,000 |
| 5 | 80,000 |
| 10 | 160,000 |
| 20 | 320,000 |
| 50 | 800,000 |
| 100 | 1,600,000 |
| 200 | 3,200,000 |
| 500 | 8,000,000 |
| 1,000 | 16,000,000 |
Every definition as a factor. Multiply murabba by the figure shown.
| Dhur definition | Where | Dhur per murabba |
|---|---|---|
| Bihar / Jharkhand (Patna chain) (the definition used here); reported, not sourced | Patna belt, and Jharkhand districts counting in the Patna katha | 16,000 |
| Tripura | Tripura | 302,500 |
1 murabba = 800 katha on the Bihar state standard definition; 1,512.5 on the West Bengal / Jharkhand definition · 378.125 on the Assam definition · 625 on the Bihar (Chhapra) definition · 572.781065 on the Bihar (Hajipur) definition · 333.333333 on the Bihar (Bettiah) definition. Katha = Murabba × 800 (Bihar state standard) · reverse Murabba = Katha × 0.00125
1,361.25 square feet either way, so the Murabba 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 murabba by the figure shown.
| Katha definition | Where | Katha per murabba |
|---|---|---|
| Bihar state standard (the definition used here) | Patna, Arrah | 800 |
| West Bengal / Jharkhand | Rural West Bengal, Ranchi | 1,512.5 |
| Assam | Assam (except Barak Valley) | 378.125 |
| Bihar (Chhapra) | Saran | 625 |
| Bihar (Hajipur) | Vaishali | 572.781065 |
| Bihar (Bettiah) | West Champaran | 333.333333 |
1 murabba = 1,011.7141056 ares (exact). Ares = Murabba × 1,011.7141056 · reverse Murabba = Ares ÷ 1,011.7141056
| Murabba | Ares |
|---|---|
| 1 | 1,011.7141056 |
| 2 | 2,023.4282112 |
| 3 | 3,035.1423168 |
| 5 | 5,058.570528 |
| 10 | 10,117.141056 |
| 20 | 20,234.282112 |
| 50 | 50,585.70528 |
| 100 | 101,171.41056 |
| 200 | 202,342.82112 |
| 500 | 505,857.0528 |
| 1,000 | 1,011,714.1056 |
1 murabba = 2,500 cent (exact). Cent = Murabba × 2,500 · reverse Murabba = Cent × 0.0004
435.6 square feet either way, so the Murabba to Biswa, Himachal Pradesh figures apply unchanged. What differs between the two is the record each word belongs to, not the size.
1 murabba = 24,200 chatak (exact). Chatak = Murabba × 24,200 · reverse Murabba = Chatak ÷ 24,200
| Murabba | Chatak |
|---|---|
| 1 | 24,200 |
| 2 | 48,400 |
| 3 | 72,600 |
| 5 | 121,000 |
| 10 | 242,000 |
| 20 | 484,000 |
| 50 | 1,210,000 |
| 100 | 2,420,000 |
| 200 | 4,840,000 |
| 500 | 12,100,000 |
| 1,000 | 24,200,000 |
1 murabba = 121,000 gaj (exact). Gaj = Murabba × 121,000 · reverse Murabba = Gaj ÷ 121,000
| Murabba | Gaj |
|---|---|
| 1 | 121,000 |
| 2 | 242,000 |
| 3 | 363,000 |
| 5 | 605,000 |
| 10 | 1,210,000 |
| 20 | 2,420,000 |
| 50 | 6,050,000 |
| 100 | 12,100,000 |
| 200 | 24,200,000 |
| 500 | 60,500,000 |
| 1,000 | 121,000,000 |
1 murabba = 453.75 ground (exact). Ground = Murabba × 453.75 · reverse Murabba = Ground ÷ 453.75
| Murabba | Ground |
|---|---|
| 1 | 453.75 |
| 2 | 907.5 |
| 3 | 1,361.25 |
| 5 | 2,268.75 |
| 10 | 4,537.5 |
| 20 | 9,075 |
| 50 | 22,687.5 |
| 100 | 45,375 |
| 200 | 90,750 |
| 500 | 226,875 |
| 1,000 | 453,750 |
1 murabba = 1,000 guntha (exact). Guntha = Murabba × 1,000 · reverse Murabba = Guntha × 0.001
| Murabba | Guntha |
|---|---|
| 1 | 1,000 |
| 2 | 2,000 |
| 3 | 3,000 |
| 5 | 5,000 |
| 10 | 10,000 |
| 20 | 20,000 |
| 50 | 50,000 |
| 100 | 100,000 |
| 200 | 200,000 |
| 500 | 500,000 |
| 1,000 | 1,000,000 |
1 murabba = 7,562.5 lessa (exact). Lessa = Murabba × 7,562.5 · reverse Murabba = Lessa ÷ 7,562.5
| Murabba | Lessa |
|---|---|
| 1 | 7,562.5 |
| 2 | 15,125 |
| 3 | 22,687.5 |
| 5 | 37,812.5 |
| 10 | 75,625 |
| 20 | 151,250 |
| 50 | 378,125 |
| 100 | 756,250 |
| 200 | 1,512,500 |
| 500 | 3,781,250 |
| 1,000 | 7,562,500 |
1 murabba = 504.166667 nali (recurring). Nali = Murabba × 3,025/6 · reverse Murabba = Nali × 6/3,025
| Murabba | Nali |
|---|---|
| 1 | 504.166667 |
| 2 | 1,008.333333 |
| 3 | 1,512.5 |
| 5 | 2,520.833333 |
| 10 | 5,041.666667 |
| 20 | 10,083.333333 |
| 50 | 25,208.333333 |
| 100 | 50,416.666667 |
| 200 | 100,833.333333 |
| 500 | 252,083.333333 |
| 1,000 | 504,166.666667 |
1 murabba = 18.90625 pura (exact). Pura = Murabba × 18.90625 · reverse Murabba = Pura ÷ 18.90625
| Murabba | Pura |
|---|---|
| 1 | 18.90625 |
| 2 | 37.8125 |
| 3 | 56.71875 |
| 5 | 94.53125 |
| 10 | 189.0625 |
| 20 | 378.125 |
| 50 | 945.3125 |
| 100 | 1,890.625 |
| 200 | 3,781.25 |
| 500 | 9,453.125 |
| 1,000 | 18,906.25 |
1 murabba = 1,011,714,105.6 square centimeter (exact). Square Centimeter = Murabba × 1,011,714,105.6 · reverse Murabba = Square Centimeter ÷ 1,011,714,105.6
| Murabba | Square Centimeter |
|---|---|
| 1 | 1,011,714,105.6 |
| 2 | 2,023,428,211.2 |
| 3 | 3,035,142,316.8 |
| 5 | 5,058,570,528 |
| 10 | 10,117,141,056 |
| 20 | 20,234,282,112 |
| 50 | 50,585,705,280 |
| 100 | 101,171,410,560 |
| 200 | 202,342,821,120 |
| 500 | 505,857,052,800 |
| 1,000 | 1,011,714,105,600 |
1 murabba = 156,816,000 square inch (exact). Square Inch = Murabba × 156,816,000 · reverse Murabba = Square Inch ÷ 156,816,000
| Murabba | Square Inch |
|---|---|
| 1 | 156,816,000 |
| 2 | 313,632,000 |
| 3 | 470,448,000 |
| 5 | 784,080,000 |
| 10 | 1,568,160,000 |
| 20 | 3,136,320,000 |
| 50 | 7,840,800,000 |
| 100 | 15,681,600,000 |
| 200 | 31,363,200,000 |
| 500 | 78,408,000,000 |
| 1,000 | 156,816,000,000 |
1 murabba = 0.10117141056 square kilometer (exact). Square Kilometer = Murabba × 0.10117141056 · reverse Murabba = Square Kilometer ÷ 0.10117141056
| Murabba | Square Kilometer |
|---|---|
| 1 | 0.10117141056 |
| 2 | 0.20234282112 |
| 3 | 0.30351423168 |
| 5 | 0.5058570528 |
| 10 | 1.0117141056 |
| 20 | 2.0234282112 |
| 50 | 5.058570528 |
| 100 | 10.117141056 |
| 200 | 20.234282112 |
| 500 | 50.58570528 |
| 1,000 | 101.17141056 |
1 murabba = 0.0390625 square mile (exact). Square Mile = Murabba × 0.0390625 · reverse Murabba = Square Mile × 25.6
| Murabba | Square Mile |
|---|---|
| 1 | 0.0390625 |
| 2 | 0.078125 |
| 3 | 0.1171875 |
| 5 | 0.1953125 |
| 10 | 0.390625 |
| 20 | 0.78125 |
| 50 | 1.953125 |
| 100 | 3.90625 |
| 200 | 7.8125 |
| 500 | 19.53125 |
| 1,000 | 39.0625 |
Six of the thirty-two units are two names for one area with another, so their figures are identical to the last digit.
1 murabba = 2,500 decimal. A decimal and a cent are the same area, 435.6 square feet, so any Murabba figure converts to the same number of either. Decimal = Murabba × 2,500 · reverse Murabba = Decimal × 0.0004
1 murabba = 2,500 dismil. A dismil and a cent are the same area, 435.6 square feet, so any Murabba figure converts to the same number of either. Dismil = Murabba × 2,500 · reverse Murabba = Dismil × 0.0004
1 murabba = 121,000 gajam. A gajam and a gaj are the same area, 9 square feet, so any Murabba figure converts to the same number of either. Gajam = Murabba × 121,000 · reverse Murabba = Gajam ÷ 121,000
1 murabba = 25 killa. A killa and an acre are the same area, 43,560 square feet, so any Murabba figure converts to the same number of either. Killa = Murabba × 25 · reverse Murabba = Killa × 0.04
1 murabba = 4,000 perches. A perch and a marla are the same area, 272.25 square feet, so any Murabba figure converts to the same number of either. Perch = Murabba × 4,000 · reverse Murabba = Perch × 0.00025
1 murabba = 121,000 square yards. A square yard and a gaj are the same area, 9 square feet, so any Murabba figure converts to the same number of either. Square Yard = Murabba × 121,000 · reverse Murabba = Square Yard ÷ 121,000
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