How Many Biswa in 1 Bigha? (1 Bigha = 20 Biswa)

How many biswa in 1 bigha? Twenty. That rule holds in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Rajasthan, even though the bigha itself is a different size in each. Enter bigha below to get biswa (and biswansi, square feet and square metres), or swap to go from biswa to bigha.

1 bigha = 20 biswa 1 biswa = 20 biswansi, so 1 bigha = 400 biswansi. In Uttar Pradesh 1 bigha = 27,000 sq ft and 1 biswa = 1,350 sq ft.

Bigha to biswa formula

biswa = bigha × 20 bigha = biswa ÷ 20

Example: 2.5 bigha = 50 biswa. A plot of 35 biswa is 35 ÷ 20 = 1 bigha 15 biswa, which is how a khatauni writes it: 1-15-0 for bigha, biswa and biswansi.

Size of a biswa by region

Because the count is always 20, the biswa simply takes one twentieth of the local bigha:

Region	1 bigha in sq ft	1 biswa in sq ft
Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand	27,000	1,350
Rajasthan (pucca bigha)	27,225	1,361.25
Punjab, Haryana	10,890	544.5
Himachal Pradesh	8,712	435.6

Some villages in western Uttar Pradesh count their bigha differently, and older records there can show a bigha that is not 20 standard biswa. If your khatauni gives a local biswa size, type it in square feet in the optional box above and the square feet and square metre columns will follow it.

Bigha to biswa table

Bigha	Biswa
1 Bigha	20 Biswa
2 Bigha	40 Biswa
3 Bigha	60 Biswa
4 Bigha	80 Biswa
5 Bigha	100 Biswa
6 Bigha	120 Biswa
7 Bigha	140 Biswa
8 Bigha	160 Biswa
9 Bigha	180 Biswa
10 Bigha	200 Biswa
15 Bigha	300 Biswa
20 Bigha	400 Biswa
25 Bigha	500 Biswa
50 Bigha	1,000 Biswa
100 Bigha	2,000 Biswa

Biswa to bigha table

Biswa	Bigha
1 Biswa	0.05 Bigha
5 Biswa	0.25 Bigha
10 Biswa	0.5 Bigha
15 Biswa	0.75 Bigha
20 Biswa	1 Bigha
25 Biswa	1.25 Bigha
30 Biswa	1.5 Bigha
40 Biswa	2 Bigha
50 Biswa	2.5 Bigha
100 Biswa	5 Bigha

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