Land Area & Lakh/Crore Converter
Result
Bigha is not a standardised unit — its real size varies by state and sometimes by district. This uses the commonly published figure for the selected state. Confirm the locally accepted size with a land record or revenue office before relying on this for a legal or financial transaction.
About Land Area Converter
Two converters in one: Indian land-area units (bigha, acre, kanal, marla, guntha, cent, hectare) with state-specific bigha sizes, and the Indian numbering system (lakh, crore) against international millions and billions.
Bigha is the unit that trips people up: unlike an acre or a hectare, it was never standardised, so a bigha in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan, West Bengal, Assam, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Haryana and Punjab are all genuinely different sizes — some by a factor of two or more. This converter asks which state's bigha you mean and uses the commonly published figure for it, rather than pretending one universal "bigha" exists. Acre, hectare, guntha, cent, kanal and marla are all fixed, exact fractions of the international acre and need no state selection.
The Lakh & Crore tab handles the other common friction point: India's numbering system groups digits differently from the rest of the world (lakh = 1,00,000, crore = 1,00,00,000), which makes reading or writing a large number in the "wrong" system slow and error-prone. Enter a number once and see it in Indian digit grouping, international grouping, lakh, crore, million and billion simultaneously.
Both run as plain arithmetic in your browser — nothing you enter is sent anywhere, and there is no reason it would need to be for a unit conversion.
What you can use it for
- Convert a plot's size from bigha to acres before comparing it with a listing quoted in acres
- Check what a property's size in guntha or cent means in square feet
- Convert a Punjab or Haryana plot size between kanal and marla
- Convert a salary, budget, or valuation figure between lakh, crore and international millions
- Read a large number in whichever digit grouping (Indian or international) you think in
Frequently asked questions
Why does bigha need me to pick a state?
Because bigha was never a fixed, standardised unit — it was historically set by local custom and royal decree, so the same word means a different area depending on where you are. A Uttar Pradesh bigha (~27,000 sq ft) and a West Bengal bigha (~14,400 sq ft) differ by nearly double. Picking your state gets you the commonly published figure for that region.
How accurate is the bigha conversion?
It uses the widely published figure for each state, cross-checked against multiple current sources — but even those sources sometimes differ slightly for the same state, because bigha can vary further by district or even by individual village custom. Treat the result as a close approximation, and confirm the locally accepted size with a land record or revenue office before relying on it for a legal or financial transaction.
What is 1 crore in millions?
1 crore = 10,000,000 = 10 million. 1 lakh = 100,000 = 0.1 million.
What's the difference between Indian and international digit grouping?
International grouping places a comma every 3 digits from the right (12,345,678). Indian grouping places the first comma after 3 digits and then every 2 digits after that (1,23,45,678) — the same number, grouped differently to match how lakh and crore are spoken.
Are guntha, cent, kanal and marla also regional?
They're regional in *where* they're used (guntha mainly in Maharashtra/Karnataka, cent in Kerala/Tamil Nadu, kanal and marla in Punjab/Haryana) but not in *size* — each is a fixed fraction of the international acre (guntha = 1/40 acre, cent = 1/100 acre, kanal = 1/8 acre, marla = 1/160 acre), so there's no state-to-state variation to account for, unlike bigha.