Although local rinks can be smaller or larger, the standard size for North American rinks is 200 feet x 85 feet. In the rest of the world, rinks are usually built to IIHF guidelines. The length is the same at 200 feet (approx. 61 m) but the rinks are much wider at 30 metres ( almost 100 feet).
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200ft x 85ft
200ft x 85ft = 17,000 sq ft.
less 673 sq ft for the 4 rounded corners of 28 ft radii give you:
17,000 - 673 or 16,327 sq feet for the playing area of an NHL rink.
For Ice Hockey, the North American size is 200 ft x 85 ft, area = 17,000 sq ft. The Olympic size is 60 m x 30 m, area = 1,800 sq m. This is in feet, 196.9 ft x 98.4 ft, area = 19375 sq ft. These areas are also used for figure skating, as far as I know. There must be other rinks where the areas are different though, these dimensions would apply to the top ones. and not necessarily to those in small venues.
Well, if you mean where is hockey popular (in which areas)? In Canada, hockey is extremely popular and is the main sport played there. The Montreal Canadiens, a Canadian team, have 24 Stanley Cups to date (more than any other team).
In the US, hockey does have a large following, particularly in regions of the country with a cold winter climate, namely New England, the northern half of the Mid-Atlantic and the Midwest, including the states of Alaska, Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Wisconsin, North Dakota, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine. However, since the 1990s hockey has become increasingly popular in the Sun Belt due in large part to the expansion of the National Hockey League to cities like Anaheim, California; Tampa, Florida; Dallas, Texas; Raleigh, North Carolina and Nashville, Tennessee.
Hockey is also very popular in Europe, primarily in the Former Soviet Union and the Scandinavian countries, but also in countries like Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Elsewhere, it is relatively unknown although hockey is played (on a smaller-scale) in countries like Japan, Israel and Australia.
Hockey is played in many countries around the world. It is played on ice with a puck. The area of a hockey puck is 22.18.