feddan
{{Short description|Unit of area}}
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A feddan ({{langx|ar|فدّان|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 ({{langx|ar|قيراط|links=no}}, qīrāt), with one kirat equalling 175 square metres.{{cite book|last1=Lyons|first1=H.G.|title=The cadastral survey of Egypt 1892-1907|date=1907|publisher=Рипол Классик|isbn=9781176444607|page=41|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FkruAgAAQBAJ&q=Belqas&pg=PA35|access-date=20 November 2016}}
Equivalent units
1 feddan = 24 kirat = 60 metre × 70 metre = 4200{{Cite web|url=https://www.sizes.com/units/feddan.htm|title=What is a feddan?|website=www.sizes.com|language=en|access-date=2018-09-27}} square metres (m2) = 0.420 hectares = 1.037 acres{{cite report | date = 21 December 2001 | title = Arab Republic of Egypt Toward Agricultural Competitiveness in the 21st Century | url =http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/582351468770335332/pdf/multi0page.pdf | publisher = Rural Development, Water and Environment Department Middle East and North Africa Region | edition =23405-EGT | page =2}}
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 {{cvt|5|-|12|ha}}.A Handbook of Syria: Including Palestine. (1920:324). United Kingdom: H.M. Stationery Office.