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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. Jerib - Wikipedia

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    It is a unit of area used to measure land holdings (real property) in much the way that an acre or hectare are. Like most traditional units of measure, the jerib originally varied substantially from one location to another. However, in the twentieth century, the jerib has been regionally, if not uniformly defined.

  6. Metrication - Wikipedia

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    There are three common ways that nations convert from traditional measurement systems to the metric system. The first is the quick or "Big-Bang" route. The second way is to phase in units over time and progressively outlaw traditional units. This method, favoured by some industrial nations, is slower and generally less complete. The third way ...

  7. Gunta - Wikipedia

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    The gunta or guntha is a measure of area used in the Indian subcontinent, predominantly used in some South Asian countries. This unit is typically used to measure the size of a piece of land. This unit is typically used to measure the size of a piece of land.

  8. 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 ...

  9. Mathematics in Nepal - Wikipedia

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    The history of mathematics in Nepal is inter-related with the history of mathematics in the Indian sub-continent. However, independent history of mathematics in Nepal also exists. The ancient Licchavi people developed a series of the system for measurement such as Kharika to measure land area and Kosh for measurement of distance.