Land measurement

How many square feet is 1 bigha?

Bigha is the most-quoted and least-standardised land unit in India. The same word means four times as much land in Haryana as it does in Uttarakhand, so the only useful answer is a table.

There is no single national figure — 1 bigha is between 6,804 and 27,225 square feet depending on the state. The most common value, used across Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan and Bihar, is about 27,000 sq ft (roughly 0.62 acre). In West Bengal and Assam a bigha is 14,400 sq ft, in Madhya Pradesh 12,000 sq ft, and in Uttarakhand just 6,804 sq ft.

Worked out 2026-09-10 (IST) · State revenue-department and local-practice conversions

1 bigha in square feet, state by state

Read your state, not the average. The right-hand columns give the same area in the units a sale deed or a registration receipt is likely to use.

1 bigha converted, by state
State	Square feet	Square metres	Acres	Gaj (sq yd)
Assam	14,400	1,338	0.331	1,600
Bihar	27,220	2,529	0.625	3,024
Gujarat	17,427	1,619	0.400	1,936
Haryana	27,225	2,529	0.625	3,025
Himachal Pradesh	8,712	809	0.200	968
Jharkhand	27,211	2,528	0.625	3,023
Madhya Pradesh	12,000	1,115	0.275	1,333
Punjab	9,070	843	0.208	1,008
Rajasthan (pucca)	27,225	2,529	0.625	3,025
Rajasthan (kachha)	17,424	1,619	0.400	1,936
Uttar Pradesh	27,000	2,508	0.620	3,000
Uttarakhand	6,804	632	0.156	756
West Bengal	14,400	1,338	0.331	1,600

Check the record, not the internet. Bigha, katha, gaj and cent are customary units, not units defined by the Legal Metrology Act. The conversion that binds you is the one printed on the local revenue record — the khasra, khatauni, RTC or 7/12 extract — and it can differ from the district figure by a few per cent. Use the numbers here to sanity-check a broker’s claim, and the revenue record to sign anything.

Going the other way: acres and hectares into bigha

The three bigha sizes that cover most of north and east India.

How many bigha in a given plot
Plot	At 27,000 sq ft/bigha (UP, HR, RJ)	At 14,400 (WB, Assam)	At 12,000 (MP)
1 acre	1.61	3.02	3.63
1 hectare	3.99	7.47	8.97
5 acres	8.07	15.12	18.15
10,000 sq ft	0.37	0.69	0.83
1 ground (2,400 sq ft)	0.09	0.17	0.20

The formula

bigha → square feet = bigha × (state conversion factor)

square feet → acre = square feet ÷ 43,560

square feet → square metre = square feet ÷ 10.7639

There is no algebra to get around the first line: the state factor has to be looked up. The other two are fixed worldwide.

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Frequently asked

How many bigha make an acre?

It depends on the state, because the bigha does. Where a bigha is 27,000 sq ft (Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan pucca) an acre is about 1.61 bigha. Where a bigha is 14,400 sq ft (West Bengal, Assam) an acre is about 3.03 bigha. In Uttarakhand, at 6,804 sq ft, an acre is about 6.4 bigha.

Why does the bigha differ from state to state?

The bigha predates the metric system and was never brought under the Standards of Weights and Measures Act. Each princely state and later each revenue administration kept its own rod length, and those local rods survived into the modern land records. That is also why Rajasthan has two bighas in active use, the pucca bigha of 27,225 sq ft and the kachha bigha of 17,424 sq ft, exactly three-fifths of it.

What is a pucca bigha and a kachha bigha?

A pucca (or pakka) bigha is the larger, official measure used in revenue records - 27,225 sq ft, which is 3,025 square yards. A kachha bigha is a smaller local measure, most often one third of a pucca bigha in Uttar Pradesh (9,075 sq ft) or three-fifths of it in Rajasthan (17,424 sq ft). When a seller quotes a price per bigha, ask which one they mean before you compare it with anything.

How many square metres is 1 bigha?

Divide the square-foot figure by 10.7639. A 27,000 sq ft bigha is about 2,508 square metres; a 14,400 sq ft West Bengal bigha is about 1,338 square metres; a 6,804 sq ft Uttarakhand bigha is about 632 square metres. Registration documents are increasingly written in square metres even where the price is negotiated in bigha.

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