The acre is an imperial unit of area equal to 43,560 square feet or about 4,047 square meters, predominantly used in the United States, United Kingdom, and former British colonies for land measurement. Real estate listings, farmland boundaries, and suburban lot sizes in these regions are conventionally expressed in acres. One acre is roughly equivalent to 90% of a standard football pitch.

The square mile (mi²) is a large imperial area unit equal to 640 acres or about 2.59 square kilometers, used for measuring expansive territories like cities, counties, and national parks. Geographic data in the United States and United Kingdom frequently references square miles when describing regions, especially in population density calculations. One square mile equals exactly 2.58999 square kilometers.