> I can't picture a hectare at all.

It's 100 ares :-)

10,000 m^2 or 100m x 100m
Each are is 100m^2 or 10m x 10m
A typical medium size house * is about 100 m^2.

So a hectare is 100 medium sized houses close packed.

This could be in a 10 x 10 square or some other shape.

In NZ the once upon a time standard section was about 1/4 acre.
A 1/4 acre is about 1000 m^2 so you should be able to close pack about 10 x
100 m^2 houses on a 1/4 acre section.
And a hectare should be about 10 x 1/4 acre sections.



        RM

* What constitutes a medium sized house will vary with locale.
Find a 100 m^2 house, decide what size it is and insert in above
descriptions :-)

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