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Unit Definition (oxgang) The oxgang is an old English unit of land area equal to 1/8 hide or roughly 15 acres (6 hectares). The hide was considered the area a farmer could plow with a team of 8 oxen, so an oxgang was the area he could plow with a single ox. The unit was also called the bovate, from the Latin word bos for an ox or cow. Unit Definition (square kilometer) The square kilometer is a common metric unit of area. One square kilometer equals 100 hectares, 10E6 square meters, approximately 247.105 acres, or approximately 0.386 102 square mile.
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