Tuvalu's islands's area is 26 miles squared.
  The are was the original unit of area in the metric system, with:1 are = 100 square metresThough the are has fallen out of use, the hectare is still commonly used to measure land:1 hectare = 100 ares = 10,000 square metres = 0
That is, the area of the rectangle is the length multiplied by the width

