: a unit of area equal to 10,000 square meters see Metric System Table
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In other court cases, some civil and some criminal, involving a total of nearly 300 additional hectares near Vlora, Shehu and his family members are accused of grabbing property through similar forgeries.
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Lindita Cela, Miami Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
The recent floods in central Vietnam killed at least 13 people, inundated over 116,000 houses and 5,000 hectares of crops, according to the government’s disaster agency, reported by Reuters.
—Helen Regan, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2025
The initial cotton planting on one hectare of land started in 2023, producing 2,400 kilos of regenerative cotton.
—Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 5 Nov. 2025
While global deforestation has declined over the past three decades, the world continues to lose more than 4 million hectares of forest annually, according to FAO’s latest Global Forest Resources Assessment—too much to meet climate and biodiversity goals.
—Kaveh Zahedi, Time, 3 Nov. 2025
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Lindita Cela, Miami Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
The recent floods in central Vietnam killed at least 13 people, inundated over 116,000 houses and 5,000 hectares of crops, according to the government’s disaster agency, reported by Reuters.
—Helen Regan, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2025
The initial cotton planting on one hectare of land started in 2023, producing 2,400 kilos of regenerative cotton.
—Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 5 Nov. 2025
While global deforestation has declined over the past three decades, the world continues to lose more than 4 million hectares of forest annually, according to FAO’s latest Global Forest Resources Assessment—too much to meet climate and biodiversity goals.
—Kaveh Zahedi, Time, 3 Nov. 2025
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“Hectare.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hectare. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.
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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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