Thanks everybody for your help. This is how I interpet your answers.
If I do a terrain of length 20,000,000 triangles and width 20,000,00 triangles that should give me an area of 160 square meters is that right?, using a 2.54cm scale and presuming MED and WED both use same grid scale.
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