Square yard

The square yard (Northern India: gaj, Pakistan: gaz) is an imperial unit and U.S. customary unit of area.

It is in widespread use in most of the English-speaking world, particularly the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Pakistan and India.

It is defined as the area of a square with sides of one yard (three feet, thirty-six inches, 0.9144 metres) in length.

There is no universally agreed symbol but the following are used: One square yard is equivalent to:

Comparison of 1 square yard with some Imperial and metric units of area