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{| class="wikitable"
|+'List of orders of magnitude for area'
!Factor (m²)
!Multiple
!Value
!Item
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|10^-70
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|2.61×10^-70 m²
|the Planck area,
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|10^-30
|1 square femtometre (fm²)
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|10^-28
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|10^-28 m²
|1 barn, roughly the cross-sectional area of an uranium nucleus
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|10^-24
|1 square picometre (pm²)
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|10^-20
|1 square ångström (Ų)
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|10^-18
|1 square nanometre (nm²)
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|10^-12
|1 square micrometre (μm²)
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|colspan="4"|...
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|10^-8
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|0.055 mm²
|Size of a pixel on a typical modern computer display
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|10^-7
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|10^-6
|1 square millimetre (mm²)
|2 mm²
|bgcolor="F0F0F0"|Area of the head of a pin
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|10^-5
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|10^-4
|1 square centimetre (cm²)
|5 cm²
|bgcolor="#E0E0E0"|Area of a typical postage stamp
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|10^-3
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|48 cm²
|bgcolor="#E0E0E0"|Largest side of a cigarette box
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|rowspan=3|10^-2
|rowspan=3| 1 square decimetre (dm²)
|0.060 m² ||bgcolor="#E0E0E0"| American letter paper (11 × 8½ inches, "A" size)
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|0.0625 m² ||bgcolor="#E0E0E0"| International A4 paper (210 × 297 mm)
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|0.093 m² ||bgcolor="#E0E0E0"| 1 square foot
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|rowspan=4|10^-1
|rowspan=4|  
| 0.125 m² ||bgcolor="#E0E0E0"| International A3 paper (297 x 420 mm)
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| 0.181 m² ||bgcolor="#E0E0E0"| Surface area of a basketball (diameter 24 cm)
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|0.250 m² ||bgcolor="#E0E0E0"| International A2 paper (420 x 594 mm)
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|0.500 m² ||bgcolor="#E0E0E0"| International A1 paper (594 x 841 mm)
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|rowspan=2|10⁰
|rowspan=2| 1 square metre
|1 m² ||bgcolor="#E0E0E0"| International A0 paper (841 x 1189 mm)
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|2-4 m² ||bgcolor="#E0E0E0"| Area of the top of an office desk
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|10¹
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|10-20 m²
|bgcolor="#E0E0E0"|A parking space
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|rowspan=2|10²
|rowspan=2|1 square decametre (dam²)
|100 m²
|bgcolor="#F0F0F0"|One are (a)
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|162 m²
|bgcolor="#F0F0F0"|Size of a volleyball field (9 x 18 metres)
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|rowspan=3| 10³
|rowspan=3|  
|4,047 m² ||bgcolor="#F0F0F0"| 1 acre
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|5,400 m² ||bgcolor="#F0F0F0"| Size of an American football field
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|7,300 m² ||bgcolor="#F0F0F0"| Size of a football (soccer) field
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|rowspan=2|10⁴
|rowspan=2| 1 square hectometre (hm²)
|10 000 m² ||bgcolor="#F0F0F0"| 1 hectare (ha)
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|55 000 m² ||bgcolor="#F0F0F0"| Base of the Great Pyramid of Giza (5.5 ha)
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|rowspan=3|10⁵
|rowspan=3|  
|190 000 m² ||bgcolor="#F0F0F0"| Irish National Botanic Gardens
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|440 000 m² ||bgcolor="#F0F0F0"| Vatican City
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|620 000 m² ||bgcolor="#F0F0F0"| Total floor area of the Pentagon
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|rowspan=3|10⁶
|rowspan=3| 1 square kilometre (km²)
|1.95 km² ||bgcolor="#F0F0F0"| Monaco (country ranked 192nd by area)
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|2.59 km² ||bgcolor="#F0F0F0"| 1 square mile
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|2.9 km² ||bgcolor="#F0F0F0"| City of London (not London)
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|rowspan=2|10⁷
|rowspan=2|  
|87.5 km² ||bgcolor="#F0F0F0"| Manhattan
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|61 km² ||bgcolor="#F0F0F0"| San Marino
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|rowspan=4|10⁸
|rowspan=4|  
|105 km² || Paris
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|122 km² || Walt Disney World
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|272 km² || Taipei City
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|641 km² || Toronto
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|rowspan=5|10⁹
|rowspan=5|  
|1092 km² || Hong Kong
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|1290 km² || Los Angeles, California, USA
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|2187 km² || Tokyo
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|5700 km² || Bali
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|8028 km² || Community of Madrid, Spain
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|rowspan=3|10¹⁰
|rowspan=3|  
|10,991 km² || Jamaica
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|68,870 km² || Lake Victoria
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|83,858 km² || Austria
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|rowspan=4|10¹¹
|rowspan=4|  
|103,000 km² || Iceland
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|301,230 km² || Italy
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|504,782 km² || Spain
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|780,580 km² || Turkey
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|rowspan=3|10¹²
|rowspan=3| 1 square megametre (Mm²) =
1 million km²
|1.00 Mm² || Egypt (country ranked 29th by area)
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|7.69 Mm² || Australia (country ranked 6th by area)
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|9 Mm² || Largest extent of the Roman Empire
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|rowspan=6|10¹³
|rowspan=6|  
|10 Mm² || Canada (including water)
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|17 Mm² || Russia (country ranked 1st by area)
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|30 Mm² || Africa
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|36 Mm² || Largest extent of the British Empire
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|38 Mm² || The Moon
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|77 Mm² || Atlantic Ocean
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|rowspan=4|10¹⁴
|rowspan=4|  
|144 Mm² || Surface area of Mars
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|150 Mm² || Land area of Earth
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|360 Mm² || Water area of Earth
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|510 Mm² || Total area of Earth
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|10¹⁵
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|7,700 Mm²
|Neptune
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|rowspan=2|10¹⁶
|rowspan=2|  
|44,000 Mm² || Saturn
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|64,000 Mm² || Jupiter
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|10¹⁷
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|4.6×10¹⁷ m²
|Area swept by the Moon's orbit of Earth
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|10¹⁸
|1 square gigametre (Gm²)
|6.1×10¹⁸ m²
|Surface area of the Sun
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|10¹⁹
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|10²⁰
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|10²¹
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|rowspan=3|10²²
|rowspan=3|  
|1.1×10²² m² || Area swept by Mercury's orbit around the Sun
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|3.7×10²² m² || Area swept by Venus' orbit around the Sun
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|7.1×10²² m² || Area swept by Earth's orbit around the Sun
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|rowspan=2|10²³
|rowspan=2|  
|1.6×10²³ m² || Area swept by Mars' orbit around the Sun
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|2.81×10²³ m² || Surface area of a Dyson sphere with a radius of 1 AU
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|rowspan=2|10²⁴
|rowspan=2| 1 square terametre (Tm²)
|1.9×10²⁴ m² || Area swept by Jupiter's orbit around the Sun
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|6.4×10²⁴ m² || Area swept by Saturn's orbit around the Sun
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|rowspan=2|10²⁵
|rowspan=2|  
|2.6×10²⁵ m² || Area swept by Uranus' orbit around the Sun
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|6.4×10²⁵ m² || Area swept by Neptune's orbit around the Sun
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|10²⁶
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|1.1×10²⁶ m²
|Area swept by Pluto's orbit around the Sun
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|colspan="4"|...
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|10⁴¹
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|7×10⁴¹ m²
|Roughly the area of Milky Way's galactic disk
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