A unit of area in the metric system equal to 100 ares or 10,000 square meters, commonly used to measure land and forests.
From French hectare, combining hecto- (from Greek hekaton, 'hundred') and -are (a unit of area), created during the French Revolution's metric system standardization to provide a practical unit for land measurement.
The hectare was invented by French scientists who realized that square meters were too small for talking about farmland, so they scaled up—one hectare is about 2.47 acres, making it perfect for agricultural and environmental data.
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