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Area

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Area is a physical quantity expressing the size of a part of a surface. The term Surface area is the summation of the areas of the exposed sides of an object.

1 Units
2 Useful formulae
3 See also
4 External links

Units for measuring surface area include:

square metre = SI derived unit

are = 100 square metres

hectare = 10,000 square metres

square kilometre = 1,000,000 square metres

square megametre = 10¹² square metres

square yard = 9 square feet = 0.83612736 square metres

square perch = 30.25 square yards = 25.2928526 square metres

acre = 160 square perches or 43,560 square feet = 4046.8564224 square metres

square mile = 640 acres = 2.5899881103 square kilometres

Common equations for area:
Shape	Equation	Variables
Square	$s^2\,\!$	$s$ is the length of the side of the square.
Regular hexagon	$\frac{3 \sqrt{3}}{2}s^2\,\!$	$s$ is the length of one side of the hexagon.
Regular octagon	$2(1+\sqrt{2})s^2\,\!$	$s$ is the length of one side of the octagon.
Any regular polygon	$\frac{1}{2}a p \,\!$	$a$ is the apothem, or the radius of an inscribed circle in the polygon, and $p$ is the perimeter of the polygon.
Any regular polygon	$\frac{P^2/n} {4 \cdot tan(\pi/n)}\,\!$	$P$ is the Perimeter and $n$ is the number of sides.
Any regular polygon (using degree measure)	$\frac{P^2/n} {4 \cdot tan(180^\circ/n)}\,\!$	$P$ is the Perimeter and $n$ is the number of sides.
Rectangle	$l \cdot w \,\!$	$l$ and $w$ are the lengths of the rectangle's sides (length and width).
Parallelogram (in general)	$b \cdot h\,\!$	$b$ and $h$ are the length of the base and the length of the perpendicular height, respectively.
Rhombus	$\frac{1}{2}ab$	$a$ and $b$ are the lengths of the two diagonals of the rhombus.
Triangle	$\frac{1}{2}b \cdot h \,\!$	$b$ and $h$ are the base and altitude (measured perpendicular to the base), respectively.
Triangle	$\frac{1}{2}\cdot a \cdot b \cdot sinC\,\!$	$a$ and $b$ are any two sides, and $C$ is the angle between them.
Circle	$\pi r^2 \,\!$ , or $\pi d^2/4 \,\!$	$r$ is the radius and $d$ the diameter.
Ellipse	$\pi ab \,\!$	$a$ and $b$ are the semi-major and semi-minor axes, respectively.
Trapezoid	$\frac{1}{2}(a+b)h \,\!$	$a$ and $b$ are the parallel sides and $h$ the distance (height) between the parallels.
Total surface area of a Cylinder	$2\pi r^2+2\pi r h \,\!$	$r$ and $h$ are the radius and height, respectively.
Lateral surface area of a cylinder	$2 \pi r h \,\!$	$r$ and $h$ are the radius and height, respectively.
Total surface area of a Cone	$\pi r (l + r) \,\!$	$r$ and $l$ are the radius and slant height, respectively.
Lateral surface area of a cone	$\pi r l \,\!$	$r$ and $l$ are the radius and slant height, respectively.
Total surface area of a Sphere	$4\pi r^2\,\!$ or $\pi d^2\,\!$	$r$ and $d$ are the radius and diameter, respectively.
Total surface area of an ellipsoid		See the article.
Circular sector	$\frac{1}{2} r^2 \theta \,\!$	$r$ and $θ$ are the radius and angle (in radians), respectively.
Square to circular area conversion	$\frac{4}{\pi} A\,\!$	$A$ is the area of the square in square units.
Circular to square area conversion	$\frac{1}{4} C\pi\,\!$	$C$ is the area of the circle in circular units.