Land measurement units in Assam
1 bigha = 14,400 ft²
Precision & format
1 bigha equals
14,400ft²
All 8 units
- Square footft²14,400
- Acreac0.3305785124
- Square yardyd²1,600
- Square meterm²1,337.803776
- Hectareha0.1337803776
- Lessalessa100
- Bighabigha1
- Kathakatha5
Assam land unit conversion table
Every unit used in Assam, with the units it is normally converted into.
| 1 unit | ft² | yd² | m² | ac | ha |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bigha | 14,400 | 1,600 | 1,337.8 | 0.330579 | 0.13378 |
| Katha | 2,880 | 320 | 267.561 | 0.0661157 | 0.0267561 |
| Lessa | 144 | 16 | 13.378 | 0.00330579 | 0.0013378 |
| Square foot | 1 | 0.111111 | 0.092903 | 0.0000229568 | 0.0000092903 |
| Square yard | 9 | 1 | 0.836127 | 0.000206612 | 0.0000836127 |
| Square meter | 10.7639 | 1.19599 | 1 | 0.000247105 | 0.0001 |
| Acre | 43,560 | 4,840 | 4,046.86 | 1 | 0.404686 |
| Hectare | 107,639 | 11,959.9 | 10,000 | 2.47105 | 1 |
How land is measured in Assam
Assam measures in a bigha of 1,600 yd² — 14,400 ft² — but divides it into 5 katha rather than the 20 a bigha is usually split into, which makes the Assam katha 2,880 ft². Each katha is 20 lessa of 144 ft², so the whole ladder stays a round number of square feet and a katha figure can be checked by multiplying back up.
Every factor on this page is an exact fraction of an acre or of the surveyor's chain the unit was defined by, not a rounded decimal copied from a table — so the sub-units divide their parent unit evenly, which is the check that catches a wrong figure. Local usage can still differ by district, and a land record is the authority over any converter.
