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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. Geography of Nepal - Wikipedia

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    A land cover map of Nepal using Landsat 30 m (2010) data. ICIMOD ’s first and most complete national land cover [ 24 ] database of Nepal prepared using public domain Landsat TM data of 2010 shows that show that forest is the dominant form of land cover in Nepal covering 57,538 km 2 with a contribution of 39.09% to the total geographical area ...

  6. Indian numbering system - Wikipedia

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    The most common of these was a vigesimal (base-20) numbering system with the main denomination called a bisi (see Hindustani number bīs), which corresponded to the land required to sow 20 nalis of seed. Consequently, its actual land measure varied based on the quality of the soil. [5] This system became the established norm in Kumaon by 1891. [6]

  7. 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 ...

  8. Guz - Wikipedia

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    A guz (also spelled gaz, from Hindustani गज़ / گز and Persian گز, or gudge, from Hindi गज (gaj)), or Mughal yard, is a unit of length used in parts of Asia. . Historically, it was a regionally variable measurement similar to the English yard both in size and in that it was often used for measurin

  9. Area - Wikipedia

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    Area is the measure of a region's size on a surface.The area of a plane region or plane area refers to the area of a shape or planar lamina, while surface area refers to the area of an open surface or the boundary of a three-dimensional object.