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  2. Nepalese customary units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    We may need to convert land area units such as aana to dhur, dhur to aana, kattha to aana, ropani to bigha, square meter to aana, square meter to dhur etc, For such area units conversion you may use Area Converter Calculator. [3] The precise land measurement conversions as per Nepal standard are as follows:

  3. Katha (unit) - Wikipedia

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    Katha or Biswa (also spelled kattha or cottah; Hindi: कट्ठा, Assamese: কঠা, Bengali: কাঠা) is a unit of area mostly used for land measurement in India, Nepal, and Bangladesh. After metrication in the mid-20th century by these countries, the unit became officially obsolete. But this unit is still in use in much of ...

  4. Bigha - Wikipedia

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    The bigha or beegah (Persian: بیگھا, Hindi: बीघा) is a traditional unit of measurement of area of a land, commonly used in northern & eastern India, Bangladesh and Nepal. There is no "standard" size of bigha and it varies considerably from place to place. [1]

  5. System of units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    Old units of measure; Measures from Antiquity and the Bible Antiquity and the Bible at the Wayback Machine (archived May 10, 2008) Reasonover's Land Measures A Reference to Spanish and French land measures (and their English equivalents with conversion tables) used in North America; The Unified Code for Units of Measure

  6. Jerib - Wikipedia

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    The jerib or djerib (Persian: جریب; Turkish: cerip) is a traditional unit of land measurement in the Middle East and southwestern Asia.It is a unit of area used to measure land holdings (real property) in much the way that an acre or hectare are.

  7. Public Land Survey System - Wikipedia

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    In Canada, however, where the land survey is based on the same units of measure as the U.S. land survey, the metric system was adopted without issue. "...the measurements of every plot of ground in the United States have been made in acres, feet, and inches, and are publicly recorded with the titles to the land according to the record system ...

  8. League (unit) - Wikipedia

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    It was common in Europe and Latin America, but is no longer an official unit in any nation. Derived from an ancient Celtic unit and adopted by the Romans as the leuga, the league became a common unit of measurement throughout western Europe. Since the Middle Ages, many values have been specified in several countries, ranging from 2.2 km (1.4 mi ...

  9. Imperial and US customary measurement systems - Wikipedia

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    India [24] and Hong Kong [25] supplemented the imperial system of units with their own indigenous units of measure, parts of Canada [26] and South Africa [27] included land survey units of measure from earlier colonial masters in their systems of measure while many territories used only a subset of the units used in the United Kingdom—in ...