diff --git a/changelog.d/1446-draw-area-units.md b/changelog.d/1446-draw-area-units.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ef82d6628
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog.d/1446-draw-area-units.md
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+- Show a drawn area of 9,999.5 m² or more as 1.0 ha, and of 999,500 m² or
+  more as 1.00 km². The draw hint picked the unit before rounding, so it read
+  "10000 m²" and "100.0 ha" (Aditya, @Rohilalala, #1446).
diff --git a/docs/CURRENT-STATE.md b/docs/CURRENT-STATE.md
index bfdc06904..015807ec2 100644
--- a/docs/CURRENT-STATE.md
+++ b/docs/CURRENT-STATE.md
@@ -5438,6 +5438,7 @@ request viewbox and continues searching without that geographic preference.
 - Drawn-line distance labels select metres or kilometres after rounding to the nearest metre, so a 999.5-metre line displays as `1.0 km` rather than `1000 m`.
 - **Measurements and centres are computed on unwrapped longitudes** (`unwrapLongitudes` / `wrapLongitude` in `drawMode.js`, used by `ringAreaM2`, `ringCentroid` and the engine's manual-area anchor). A ~50,000 m² rectangle straddling the antimeridian reads its 0.002° width as 359.998° under raw arithmetic: it measured thousands of square kilometres and anchored on the Greenwich meridian, half a world from the shape. Path length was already safe — haversine is periodic in the longitude delta — and a test pins that so a "fix" cannot break it.
 - **Bounds.** One shape holds at most `MAX_VERTICES` = 512 points; two clicks within 0.5 m are one vertex (that is what makes a double-click finish without leaving a stray point); a vertex that is not a finite on-globe coordinate is refused. A shape that encloses nothing is refused rather than placed: three collinear points are not an area and a line under a metre long is not a line, and the hint says which.
+- Drawn-area measures round before choosing m², ha or km², so 9,999.6 m² displays as `1.0 ha`, not `10000 m²`, and 999,960 m² as `1.00 km²`, not `100.0 ha`.
 - Pointer ownership: while a session is open the tool holds the single pointer claim (`claimPointer('draw')`, `src/data/inputOwnership.js`) and **every** ambient scene selection handler — the shared tracking click gesture behind flights, military and CCTV, plus vessels, satellites, launches, fires, installations, bikeshare, radio, submarine cables, the bundled GeoJSON layers and the CCTV calibration gizmo — returns before picking. A vertex over an aircraft is a vertex, not a selection.
 - **The claim is a LEASE.** `claimPointer(owner)` returns an opaque token or `null`; `releasePointer(lease)` takes that token. A second claim fails even under the same owner name, because two live instances of one tool — an old one mid-teardown and its replacement — are two owners; releasing by name let the old instance free the claim its successor was holding, and every layer started selecting through the live session's vertices. A superseded lease now releases nothing.
 - **Cesium's own click actions are borrowed too.** The Viewer binds a selecting LEFT_CLICK and a tracking LEFT_DOUBLE_CLICK on its own handler, outside every layer and therefore outside the shared claim — guarding the layers alone still left a drawn vertex selecting the entity under it. Both are removed for the session and restored, as the same function objects, when it ends or the tool is destroyed.
diff --git a/src/annotations/drawMode.js b/src/annotations/drawMode.js
index 538c2e5da..93f75dbdc 100644
--- a/src/annotations/drawMode.js
+++ b/src/annotations/drawMode.js
@@ -215,9 +215,12 @@ export function formatMeasure(session) {
   }
   if (session.shape === 'area') {
     const m2 = ringAreaM2(session.vertices);
-    if (m2 >= 1e6) return `${(m2 / 1e6).toFixed(2)} km²`;
-    if (m2 >= 1e4) return `${(m2 / 1e4).toFixed(1)} ha`;
-    return `${Math.round(m2)} m²`;
+    // Round before each unit cut, as for a line. 9,999.6 m² was "10000 m²".
+    const whole = Math.round(m2);
+    const ha = (m2 / 1e4).toFixed(1);
+    if (whole < 1e4) return `${whole} m²`;
+    if (Number(ha) < 100) return `${ha} ha`;
+    return `${(m2 / 1e6).toFixed(2)} km²`;
   }
   return '';
 }
diff --git a/src/annotations/drawMode.test.mjs b/src/annotations/drawMode.test.mjs
index be9894dda..8018b4527 100644
--- a/src/annotations/drawMode.test.mjs
+++ b/src/annotations/drawMode.test.mjs
@@ -345,3 +345,43 @@ test('a line that rounds up to a kilometre reads 1.0 km, not 1000 m', () => {
   assert.equal(formatMeasure(line), '1.0 km');
   assert.match(drawHint(line), /^1\.0 km · /);
 });
+
+test('an area that rounds up to the next unit reads in that unit', () => {
+  // A square on the equator whose shoelace area is about `m2`.
+  const square = (m2) => {
+    const side = Math.sqrt(m2) / 111320;
+    const area = createDrawSession('area');
+    for (const [lon, lat] of [
+      [0, 0],
+      [side, 0],
+      [side, side],
+      [0, side],
+    ])
+      addVertex(area, { lon, lat });
+    return area;
+  };
+  const almostHectare = square(9999.6);
+  const metres = ringAreaM2(almostHectare.vertices);
+  assert.ok(
+    metres >= 9999.5 && metres < 1e4,
+    `area should round to 10000 m², got ${metres}`,
+  );
+  assert.equal(formatMeasure(almostHectare), '1.0 ha');
+  assert.match(drawHint(almostHectare), /^1\.0 ha · /);
+  assert.equal(formatMeasure(square(9999.4)), '9999 m²');
+  // Pin the shoelace area too, so a geodesy change fails here and not as a unit.
+  const almostKm2 = square(999_960);
+  const nearKm2 = ringAreaM2(almostKm2.vertices);
+  assert.ok(
+    nearKm2 >= 999_500 && nearKm2 < 1e6,
+    `area should round to 100.0 ha, got ${nearKm2}`,
+  );
+  assert.equal(formatMeasure(almostKm2), '1.00 km²');
+  const under = square(999_400);
+  const underM2 = ringAreaM2(under.vertices);
+  assert.ok(
+    underM2 >= 998_500 && underM2 < 999_500,
+    `area should round to 99.9 ha, got ${underM2}`,
+  );
+  assert.equal(formatMeasure(under), '99.9 ha');
+});