What a gaz really is
Gaz is the Urdu and Hindi word for a yard, and in the property markets of Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh it has become the everyday unit for land area. When an agent says a plot is 120 gaz, they mean 120 square yards. Because one square yard is a square that measures three feet on each side, it contains exactly 9 square feet. That fixed relationship is the whole conversion: to move from square feet to gaz you divide by 9, and to move back you multiply by 9.
The word can be a small trap, though. A gaz on its own can describe a linear yard — a length of cloth or a boundary line — so a shopkeeper measuring fabric and an estate agent measuring land are using the same word for different things. In anything to do with plots, area, or property size, gaz means square yard, and that is the meaning this converter uses.
Gaz, marla, and kanal together
Gaz rarely travels alone; it sits alongside marla and kanal in the same conversations. One marla is 272.25 square feet, which works out to about 30.25 gaz, so a common 5-marla plot is roughly 151 gaz or 1,361 square feet. Scale up and one kanal is 20 marla — about 605 gaz, or 5,445 square feet.
Converting a plot to gaz first gives you a single, familiar number you can then read against marla and kanal, which is why gaz is such a useful common denominator when you are comparing listings that each quote a different unit.
Getting the conversion right
The math never changes: square feet divided by 9 gives gaz. A 900-square-foot plot is 100 gaz, a 2,250-square-foot plot is 250 gaz, and a small 90-square-foot patch is just 10 gaz. Because gaz is simply another name for square yards, any square-yard figure you already have is the same number in gaz.
When you are working from a room or a plot you have measured yourself, calculate the square footage first, then divide. If you are unsure of your base measurement, measure the space carefully before converting so the gaz figure you quote is one you can stand behind.