Orders of magnitude (area)
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| Decade of Area | Area using SI prefixes | Area of Item | Item |
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| 10-28 m² | 1 barn, roughly the cross-sectional area of a Uranium nucleus | ||
| ... | |||
| 10-8 m² | 0.055 mm² | Size of a pixel on a typical modern computer display | |
| 10-7 m² | |||
| 10-6 m² | 1 square millimetre (mm²) | 2 mm² | Area of the head of a pin |
| 10-5 m² | |||
| 10-4 m² | 1 square centimetre (cm²) | 5 cm² | Area of a typical postage stamp |
| 10-3 m² | 48 cm² | Largest side of a cigarette box | |
| 10-2 m² | 1 square decimetre (dm²) | 0.060 m² 0.062 m² 0.093 m² | American letter paper (11 × 8½ inches, "A" size) International A4 paper (210 × 297 mm) 1 square foot |
| 10-1 m² | 0.125 m² 0.250 m² 0.500 m² | International A3 paper (297 x 420 mm) International A2 paper (420 x 594 mm) International A1 paper (594 x 841 mm) | |
| 100 m² | 1 square metre | 1m² 2-4 m² | International A0 paper (841 x 1189 mm) Area of the top of an office desk |
| 101 m² | 10-20 m² | A parking space | |
| 102 m² | 1 square decametre (dam²) | 162 m² | Size of a volleyball field (9 x 18 metres) |
| 103 m² | 4,047 m² 5,400 m² 7,300 m² | 1 acre Size of an American football field Size of a football (soccer) field | |
| 104 m² | 1 square hectometre (hm²) | 100 m² 550 m² | 1 hectare (ha) Base of the Great Pyramid of Giza (5.5 ha) |
| 105 m² | 1900 m² 4400 m² | Irish National Botanic Gardens Vatican City | |
| 106 m² | 1 square kilometre (km²) | 1.95 km² 2.59 km² 2.9 km² | Monaco (country ranked 192nd by area) 1 square mile City of London (not London) |
| 107 m² | 59 km² 61 km² | Manhattan San Marino | |
| 108 m² | 105 km² 272 km² 641 km² | Paris Taipei City Toronto | |
| 109 m² | 1092 km² 1290 km² 2187 km² 5700 km² 8028 km² | Hong Kong Los Angeles, California, USA Tokyo Bali Madrid, Spain | |
| 1010 m² | 10,991 km² 68,870 km² 83,858 km² | Jamaica Lake Victoria Austria | |
| 1011 m² | 100,250 km² 301,230 km² 504,782 km² 780,580 km² | Iceland (land) Italy Spain Turkey | |
| 1012 m² | 1 square megametre (Mm²) | 1.00 Mm² 7.69 Mm² | 1 million km² Egypt (country ranked 29th by area) Australia (country ranked 6th by area) |
| 1013 m² | 10 Mm² 38 Mm² 77 Mm² | Canada (including water) The Moon Atlantic Ocean | |
| 1014 m² | 150 Mm² 360 Mm² 510 Mm² | Land area of Earth Water area of Earth Total area of Earth | |
| 1015 m² | 7,700 Mm² | Neptune | |
| 1016 m² | 44,000 Mm² 64,000 Mm² | Saturn Jupiter | |
| 1017 m² | 4.6×1017 m² | Area swept by the Moon's orbit of Earth | |
| 1018 m² | 1 square gigametre (Gm²) | 6.1×1018 m² | Surface area of the Sun |
| 1019 m² | |||
| 1020 m² | |||
| 1021 m² | |||
| 1022 m² | 1.1×1022 m² 3.7×1022 m² 7.1×1022 m² | Area swept by Mercury's orbit around the Sun Area swept by Venus' orbit around the Sun Area swept by Earth's orbit around the Sun | |
| 1023 m² | 1.6×1023 m² 2.81×1023 m² | Area swept by Mars' orbit around the Sun Surface area of a Dyson sphere with a radius of 1 AU | |
| 1024 m² | 1 square terametre (Tm²) | 1.9×1024 m² 6.4×1024 m² | Area swept by Jupiter's orbit around the Sun Area swept by Saturn's orbit around the Sun |
| 1025 m² | 2.6×1025 m² 6.4×1025 m² | Area swept by Uranus' orbit around the Sun Area swept by Neptune's orbit around the Sun | |
| 1026 m² | 1.1×1026 m² | Area swept by Pluto's orbit around the Sun | |
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| 1041 m² | 7×1041 m² | Roughly the area of Milky Way's galactic disk | |