Land measurement units in West Bengal
1 bigha = 14,400 ft²
Precision & format
1 bigha equals
14,400ft²
All 9 units
- Square footft²14,400
- Acreac0.3305785124
- Square yardyd²1,600
- Square meterm²1,337.803776
- Hectareha0.1337803776
- Decimaldecimal33.05785124
- Chatakchatak320
- Bighabigha1
- Kathakatha20
West Bengal land unit conversion table
Every unit used in West Bengal, 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 | 720 | 80 | 66.8902 | 0.0165289 | 0.00668902 |
| Chatak | 45 | 5 | 4.18064 | 0.00103306 | 0.000418064 |
| Decimal | 435.6 | 48.4 | 40.4686 | 0.01 | 0.00404686 |
| 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 West Bengal
The West Bengal bigha is 1,600 yd² — 14,400 ft², the square of a 120-foot chain. It divides into 20 katha of 720 ft², and each katha into 16 chatak of 45 ft². Some conversion tables give the chatak as 180 ft², which cannot be right alongside a 720 ft² katha: sixteen of them would come to four times the katha they are a part of.
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.
