Bigha to Square Feet
One bigha is anywhere from 6,804 to 27,225 square feet depending on the state. Choose the region and convert with the right local figure.
Select the state first. A bigha in West Bengal is 14,400 sq ft, in Bihar 27,220, in Madhya Pradesh 12,000, in Uttarakhand 6,804. These are not rounding differences — the largest bigha in common use is four times the smallest.
Why one unit ended up with a dozen values
The bigha predates any attempt at national standardisation and was never brought into one. It spread as a practical measure of how much land a household worked, which varied with soil, rainfall and local revenue practice. When the British codified land records they largely recorded what was already in use district by district rather than imposing a single figure, and independence did not change that.
The result is a unit that works perfectly well within a district and fails completely across state lines.
Buying farmland across a state border
This is where the ambiguity turns expensive. A buyer from Delhi looking at land in Bengal will mentally apply the UP bigha they know — 27,000 sq ft — to a Bengal listing that means 14,400. The plot is half the size they think, and the per-bigha price they judged as reasonable is nearly double what it appeared.
Two habits protect against it. Convert everything to square feet or square meters before comparing anything, and take the area from the revenue record rather than the listing. The table below covers the states where the unit is still in daily use.
Bigha to square feet table
This table is fixed to the Uttar Pradesh figure of 27,000 sq ft, whichever state is selected above. Use the converter for any other region — the spread between states is wide enough that the wrong one is a materially wrong answer, not a rounding difference.
| Bigha | Square feet |
|---|---|
| 0.25 bigha | 6,750 sq ft |
| 0.5 bigha | 13,500 sq ft |
| 1 bigha | 27,000 sq ft |
| 1.5 bigha | 40,500 sq ft |
| 2 bigha | 54,000 sq ft |
| 3 bigha | 81,000 sq ft |
| 5 bigha | 135,000 sq ft |
| 10 bigha | 270,000 sq ft |
| 20 bigha | 540,000 sq ft |
| 50 bigha | 1,350,000 sq ft |
One bigha by state
These are the figures used in local practice and in property listings, not statutory definitions. Where a sale or a mutation is involved, the number that governs is the one in the revenue record — check it before you rely on any of these.
| State or region | Square feet | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 27,000 | — |
| Uttarakhand | 6,804 | — |
| Bihar | 27,220 | — |
| West Bengal | 14,400 | 1,600 sq yd — the most consistently applied bigha |
| Assam | 14,400 | — |
| Gujarat | 17,427 | — |
| Rajasthan (pucca) | 27,225 | — |
| Rajasthan (kaccha) | 17,424 | — |
| Madhya Pradesh | 12,000 | — |
| Punjab & Haryana | 27,225 | — |
| Himachal Pradesh | 8,712 | — |
| Jharkhand | 27,211 | — |
Other conversions
- Square feet to bigha
- Square feet to katha
- Katha to square feet
- Square feet to square meters
- Square meters to square feet
- Square feet to acres
- Acres to square feet
Need the area first? The square footage calculator works it out from your measurements, and the shape calculators handle the rooms and lots that are not a plain rectangle.