: a unit of area equal to 10,000 square meters see Metric System Table
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In 2016, a team led by Su Yinquan, dean of forestry at Northwest A&F University, leased 14 hectares of barren Gobi land in Xinjiang to test whether Duzhong could survive and grow there.
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Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 31 Jan. 2026
In Ceibas, a farming community that sits on a picturesque hillside in the Pasorapa municipality, people chose individual incentives instead of one large community project in exchange for protecting 1,078 hectares of forest.
—Brianna Randall, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
Environmental destruction in Lebanon During the latest war — the sixth such Israeli invasion of Lebanon since 1978 — Lebanon lost around 1,910 hectares of prime farmland, 47,000 olive trees and around 1,200 hectares of oak forests, according to Lebanese state figures.
—Josiane Yazbeck, The Conversation, 22 Jan. 2026
Spread over a sprawling 42 hectares, despite its infancy, the island is lush and verdant, and fringed by a sugary golden beach and lapped by the gentle waters of a crystalline lagoon.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Jan. 2026
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Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 31 Jan. 2026
In Ceibas, a farming community that sits on a picturesque hillside in the Pasorapa municipality, people chose individual incentives instead of one large community project in exchange for protecting 1,078 hectares of forest.
—Brianna Randall, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
Environmental destruction in Lebanon During the latest war — the sixth such Israeli invasion of Lebanon since 1978 — Lebanon lost around 1,910 hectares of prime farmland, 47,000 olive trees and around 1,200 hectares of oak forests, according to Lebanese state figures.
—Josiane Yazbeck, The Conversation, 22 Jan. 2026
Spread over a sprawling 42 hectares, despite its infancy, the island is lush and verdant, and fringed by a sugary golden beach and lapped by the gentle waters of a crystalline lagoon.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Jan. 2026
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“Hectare.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hectare. Accessed 11 Feb. 2026.
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hectare
noun
hect·are
ˈhek-ˌta(ə)r 
-ˌte(ə)r
-ˌte(ə)r
-ˌtär
: a unit of area equal to 10,000 square meters see metric system
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