Square yard

The square yard (Northern India: gaj, Pakistan: gaz) is an imperial unit and U.S. customary unit of area. It is in widespread use in most of the English-speaking world, particularly the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Pakistan and India. It is defined as the area of a square with sides of one yard (three feet, thirty-six inches, 0.9144 metres) in length.

Symbols
There is no universally agreed symbol but the following are used:
 * square yards, square yard, square yds, square yd
 * sq yards, sq yard, sq yds, sq yd, sq.yd.
 * yards/-2, yard/-2, yds/-2, yd/-2
 * yards^2, yard^2, yds^2, yd^2
 * yards², yard², yds², yd²

Conversions
One square yard is equivalent to:
 * 1,296 square inches
 * 9 square feet
 * ≈0.00020661157 acres
 * ≈0.000000322830579 square miles
 * 836 127.36 square millimetres
 * 8 361.2736 square centimetres
 * 0.83612736 square metres
 * 0.000083612736 hectares
 * 0.00000083612736 square kilometres
 * 1.00969 gaj