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  2. Hectare - Wikipedia

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    The entire yellow square is one square mile. The hectare ( / ˈhɛktɛər, - tɑːr /; SI symbol: ha) is a non-SI metric unit of area equal to a square with 100- metre sides (1 hm 2 ), that is, 10,000 square meters (10,000 m 2 ), and is primarily used in the measurement of land. There are 100 hectares in one square kilometre.

  3. United States customary units - Wikipedia

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    The most widely used area unit with a name unrelated to any length unit is the acre.The National Institute of Standards and Technology formerly contended that customary area units are defined in terms of the square survey foot, not the square international foot, but from 2023 it states that "although historically defined using the U.S. survey foot, the statute mile can be defined using either ...

  4. Measurement of land in Punjab - Wikipedia

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    Current standard measurement of farm land. A commonly used land measurement unit in Punjab is karam or square karam. [3] Other units include the Sarsai and units listed. [4] This the current system of measurement of farm land. All Units. 1 karam × 1 karam = 1 sq. karam. 5.5 feet × 5.5 feet = 30.25 sq. feet. 30.25 square feet = 1 Sarsai.

  5. Acre - Wikipedia

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    The entire yellow square is one square mile; the dark blue area at right represents 100 acres. The acre ( / ˈeɪkər / AY-kər) is a unit of land area used in the British imperial and the United States customary systems. It is traditionally defined as the area of one chain by one furlong (66 by 660 feet ), which is exactly equal to 10 square ...

  6. Imperial units - Wikipedia

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    Imperial units. The former Weights and Measures office in Seven Sisters, London (590 Seven Sisters Road) The imperial system of units, imperial system or imperial units (also known as British Imperial [1] or Exchequer Standards of 1826) is the system of units first defined in the British Weights and Measures Act 1824 ( 5 Geo. 4. c.

  7. List of conversion factors - Wikipedia

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    List of conversion factors. This article gives a list of conversion factors for several physical quantities. A number of different units (some only of historical interest) are shown and expressed in terms of the corresponding SI unit. Conversions between units in the metric system are defined by their prefixes (for example, 1 kilogram = 1000 ...

  8. Italian units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    An example of a Tavole di ragguaglio (Conversion Table) in 1860 when Tuscany became part of modern Italy. Milan adopted the metric system in 1803, during the Napoleonic wars, albeit reusing names of older units. After the Congress of Vienna, the various Italian states reverted to their original systems of measurements.

  9. 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. Like most traditional units of measure, the jerib originally varied substantially from one ...