10 Dhur in square feet
10 Dhur is 1,822.5 square feet: exactly half a Katha, a fortieth of a Bigha, and 169.32 square metres. Here is the arithmetic, the full table, and how to check that your plot really is 10 Dhur.
10 Dhur is 1,822.5 square feet. That is 169.32 square metres, 202.5 gaj, exactly half a Katha and one fortieth of a Bigha. In the hill system the same piece of land is about 5 Aana 1 Paisa 1 Dam, or 0.333 Ropani.
The number is exact rather than rounded, because a Dhur is defined as 182.25 square feet and ten of them is 1,822.5. Nothing about that changes by district: it is the Nepali Terai definition, used from Jhapa to Kanchanpur.
| Unit | 10 Dhur equals |
|---|---|
| Square feet | 1,822.5 sq ft |
| Square metres | 169.32 sq m |
| Square yards (gaj) | 202.5 gaj |
| Katha | 0.5 Katha (exactly half) |
| Bigha | 0.025 Bigha (one fortieth) |
| Ropani | 0.3328 Ropani |
| Aana | 5.325 Aana — about 5 Aana 1 Paisa 1 Dam |
| Hectares | 0.0169 ha |
| Acres | 0.0418 acres |
If you need any other quantity, the Dhur to square feet converter does it instantly, and the Bigha-Katha-Dhur calculator converts the whole chain in both directions at once. This page is the explanation; those pages are the calculators.
Where the number comes from
The Terai chain is built on the Bigha, and every step is a factor of twenty:
1 Bigha = 20 Katha = 400 Dhur = 72,900 square feet.
1 Katha = 20 Dhur = 3,645 square feet.
1 Dhur = 182.25 square feet.
So 10 Dhur = 10 × 182.25 = 1,822.5 square feet.
Those figures look arbitrary until you see them as squares. A Bigha is a square 270 feet on a side — 270 × 270 = 72,900. A Dhur is a square 13.5 feet on a side — 13.5 × 13.5 = 182.25, and 270 ÷ 20 = 13.5. The hill system works the same way: a Ropani is a square 74 feet on a side, which is 5,476 square feet. Once you know that, you can sanity-check a claimed area by eye.
| Unit | Equals | Square feet | Square metres |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Bigha | 20 Katha | 72,900 | 6,772.63 |
| 1 Katha | 20 Dhur | 3,645 | 338.63 |
| 1 Dhur | — | 182.25 | 16.93 |
Dhur to square feet, 1 to 20
Twenty Dhur closes the loop and becomes one Katha, so this table covers every value you will see written in the last position of a Terai area chain.
| Dhur | Square feet | Square metres |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 182.25 | 16.93 |
| 2 | 364.5 | 33.86 |
| 3 | 546.75 | 50.79 |
| 4 | 729 | 67.73 |
| 5 | 911.25 | 84.66 |
| 6 | 1,093.5 | 101.59 |
| 7 | 1,275.75 | 118.52 |
| 8 | 1,458 | 135.45 |
| 9 | 1,640.25 | 152.38 |
| 10 | 1,822.5 | 169.32 |
| 11 | 2,004.75 | 186.25 |
| 12 | 2,187 | 203.18 |
| 13 | 2,369.25 | 220.11 |
| 14 | 2,551.5 | 237.04 |
| 15 | 2,733.75 | 253.97 |
| 16 | 2,916 | 270.91 |
| 17 | 3,098.25 | 287.84 |
| 18 | 3,280.5 | 304.77 |
| 19 | 3,462.75 | 321.70 |
| 20 (= 1 Katha) | 3,645 | 338.63 |
How big is 10 Dhur, really?
1,822.5 square feet is a plot roughly 43 feet square, or about 60 ft by 30 ft in a more typical town shape. It is a normal residential plot in a Terai town — comfortably enough for a house with room around it, and small enough that setbacks matter.
What you can build on it is a municipal question, not an arithmetic one. Every municipality sets its own setbacks from the road and the boundaries, its own ground coverage limit and its own height rules, and they differ between a ward on a highway and a ward off a lane. Ask the ward office for the rules that apply to the specific plot before you assume a footprint. As a rough frame of reference, a plot this size commonly leaves a footprint in the region of half to two-thirds of the land once setbacks are taken, which two or three storeys turn into a substantial house.
Careful: the Indian Dhur is not this Dhur
The words Katha and Dhur are also used across the border in Bihar and eastern Uttar Pradesh, with different values — a Bihar Katha is commonly taken as 1,361.25 square feet, which makes its Dhur about 68 square feet rather than 182.25. Local variants exist even within India.
If a conversion you found online gives 10 Dhur as roughly 680 square feet, you have an Indian table, not a Nepali one. Every figure on this page is the Nepali Terai definition: 1 Dhur = 182.25 sq ft, 1 Katha = 3,645 sq ft, 1 Bigha = 72,900 sq ft.
Is your plot actually 10 Dhur?
Converting the number on the paper is the easy half. The interesting question is whether the land matches the paper — and that you can check yourself, for free, in a browser.
Open GharNaksa Naapi Plotter and load your naksa: a Mero Kitta PDF, a scan, or a flat photo of the printed sheet.
Calibrate against a length you can verify — a dimension printed on the drawing, a known road width, or a wall you measured with a tape.
Trace the parcel corner by corner and press Calculate.
Read the Bigha-Katha-Dhur figure. If your plot is 10 Dhur, it should come out near 0-0-10 and near 1,822.5 sq ft.
Compare with the area written on the lalpurja. A few percent apart is normal; a much bigger gap means either a calibration mistake or a question for a licensed surveyor.
No drawing at all? Walk the boundary with a tape, then use the By lengths mode: sketch the shape, let the tool build the diagonals, type your measurements, and the area comes out by triangulation — the sketch itself never has to be to scale.
Related conversions
- Dhur to square feet — any number of Dhur, instantly.
- Katha to square feet — 1 Katha = 3,645 sq ft.
- Bigha to square feet — 1 Bigha = 72,900 sq ft.
- Bigha to Katha — 1 Bigha = 20 Katha.
- Bigha-Katha-Dhur calculator — the whole Terai chain, both directions.
- Ropani to Bigha — for comparing hill land with Terai land.
- Dhur, Katha, Ropani and Bigha in square feet — the full chart for every other count and unit.
- How to calculate land area in Nepal — the method behind all of it.
