A square meter is the area of a square that is 1 meter long on each side, equal to about 10.76 square feet.

Basic definition

  • One square meter (1textm21\\text{m}^21textm2) is a square that is 1 m by 1 m.
  • In centimeters, that is 100 cm by 100 cm, so 1textm2=10,000textcm21\\text{m}^2=10{,}000\\text{cm}^21textm2=10,000textcm2.

In everyday terms

  • It is roughly the same area as a small table top or a large open newspaper laid flat.
  • Many floor plans and real-estate listings use square meters to describe room and apartment sizes (for example, a 20 m² room is twenty of those 1 m × 1 m squares).

In square feet

  • 1textm2≈10.7639textft21\\text{m}^2\approx 10.7639\\text{ft}^21textm2≈10.7639textft2.
  • A quick mental rule: think “about 11 square feet” for each square meter.

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