: a unit of area equal to 10,000 square meters see Metric System Table
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Following land surveys and consolidation of plots within the area, the government alleged that the 27-hole golf resort’s land area increased by 30 hectares, beyond its original size of 369 hectares.
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Phisanu Phromchanya, Forbes.com, 6 May 2025
The expansion will quadruple its footprint from 1,112 acres (450 hectares) to 4,645 acres (1,880 hectares), adding four specialized terminals for containers, hydrocarbons, general cargo, and storage.
—Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 May 2025
The most well-known of these was Operation Ranch Hand, which sprayed at least 19 million gallons (75 million liters) of herbicides over approximately 6.4 million acres (2.6 million hectares), of South Vietnam.
—Pamela McElwee, The Conversation, 28 Apr. 2025
The fires, which burned about 48,000 hectares in total, had been extinguished by Monday, the Korea Forest Service said in a statement.
—Yoonjung Seo, CNN Money, 31 Mar. 2025
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Phisanu Phromchanya, Forbes.com, 6 May 2025
The expansion will quadruple its footprint from 1,112 acres (450 hectares) to 4,645 acres (1,880 hectares), adding four specialized terminals for containers, hydrocarbons, general cargo, and storage.
—Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 May 2025
The most well-known of these was Operation Ranch Hand, which sprayed at least 19 million gallons (75 million liters) of herbicides over approximately 6.4 million acres (2.6 million hectares), of South Vietnam.
—Pamela McElwee, The Conversation, 28 Apr. 2025
The fires, which burned about 48,000 hectares in total, had been extinguished by Monday, the Korea Forest Service said in a statement.
—Yoonjung Seo, CNN Money, 31 Mar. 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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