Feddan

A feddan (Arabic: فدّان, romanized: faddān) is a unit of area used in Egypt, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, and Oman. In Classical Arabic, the word means 'a yoke of oxen', implying the area of ground that could be tilled by oxen in a certain time. In Egypt, the feddan is the only non-metric unit which remained in use following the adoption of the metric system. A feddan is divided into 24 kirat (Arabic: قيراط, qīrāt), with one kirat equalling 175 square metres.^[1]

Feddan
Unit of	Area
Symbol	fed
Conversions
1 fed in ...	... is equal to ...
SI units	4,200 m2

Equivalent units

1 feddan = 24 kirat = 60 metre × 70 metre = 4200^[2] square metres (m²) = 0.420 hectares = 1.037 acres^[3]

In Syria, the feddan is a vaguer quantity, referring to the amount of land that can be ploughed by a pair of oxen in a year, being about 5–12 ha (12–30 acres).^[4]

See also

• Acre
• Dunam