What is an Acre?
An acre is a unit of measurement for land that describes the square footage, or yardage of a parcel of land; though different countries may measure the acre in slightly different ways. If one imagines a football field, one can see roughly the same square footage as would exist in an acre. However, the perimeter of an acre may vary. Both England and the United States use the acre as a land measurement. In the United States, an acre is 43,560 square feet (13,277.088 square meters). The translation to metric measurements usually results in measurement in hectares. An acre is equivalent to .4 hectares. Measuring an acre gets more complicated when one uses yards as the central means of measurement. In England and the US, a square yard yields slightly different measurement. Thus saying that an acre contains 4,840 square yards will result in a slightly different metric measurement. For example, the international measurement of a yard is .9144 meters, and the US measurement of a yard is a tiny
