section_path: Units/Conversions
section_name: Conversions
paragraph_text: Conversions
  
  Calculation of the area of a square whose length and width are 1 metre would be:
  
  1 metre × 1 metre = 1 m
  
  and so, a rectangle with different sides (say length of 3 metres and width of 2 metres) would have an area in square units that can be calculated as:
  
  3 metres × 2 metres = 6 m. This is equivalent to 6 million square millimetres. Other useful conversions are: