Land Area Converter, State by State

A bigha is not the same size everywhere in India. Pick the state your land is in and this converts using the measure that actually applies there.

Why a bigha is not one number

Acres and hectares are the same everywhere on earth. Bigha, katha and biswa are not. They are customary measures that settled differently in different revenue systems, and the differences are large.

A bigha in Uttar Pradesh is 27,225 square feet. A bigha in West Bengal is 14,400. A bigha in Uttarakhand is 6,804. So the same two bigha of land is a little over an acre in Uttar Pradesh and less than a third of an acre in Uttarakhand.

Most online converters ship a single figure for bigha and never mention this. If you are in Bengal and the site quietly assumed the Uttar Pradesh figure, your answer is nearly double the truth. That is why this tool asks where the land is before it converts anything.

Pucca and kachha bigha

Several states have both. The pucca bigha is the revenue measure and the larger one. The kachha bigha is a local working measure, often a third of the pucca, and it still turns up in village conversation.

This converter uses the pucca figure, because that is what a sale deed or a revenue record will normally be expressed in. If somebody quoted you a price per bigha in a village, it is worth asking plainly which bigha they meant.

The units that do not move

One acre is 43,560 square feet, everywhere. One hectare is 10,000 square metres, which is 2.47 acres. One square yard, the gaj you hear in north India, is 9 square feet.

Marla and kanal, used in Punjab, Haryana and Himachal, are fixed at 272.25 and 5,445 square feet. Guntha, used in Maharashtra and Karnataka, is 1,089 square feet, and 40 guntha make an acre. Cent, used across the south, is 435.6 square feet, and 100 cent make an acre. Ground, used in Tamil Nadu, is 2,400 square feet.

What to do if the deed and the ground disagree

This happens more than people expect on agricultural and peri urban land. The revenue record says one area, the physical boundaries enclose another, and a neighbour has been farming the difference for twenty years.

A conversion tool cannot solve that. What solves it is a measured survey on the ground, checked against the record, which is part of what our engineer does when valuing land. The report then states both the recorded area and the measured area, which is precisely the document you need if there is an argument.

Converting is not valuing

Knowing that your land is 1.3 acres tells you nothing about what it is worth. Land value turns on the road it faces, its shape, whether it is a corner, how it sits relative to the road level, its zoning and whether it can be converted from agricultural use.

The plot value estimator walks through those factors. For a figure that a bank, a court or the tax department will accept, a proper land valuation is what you need.

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