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  2. Taiwanese units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    The measurement refers to the traditional size of a Japanese flooring mat called a Tatami mat (made of woven dried grass) which were positioned to completely cover the floor of traditional Japanese homes, therefore it became a convenient measurement tool as mat area was standardised hundreds of years ago.

  3. Nepalese customary units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    The kos (kosh, krosh, koss) is a very ancient measure of distance, measuring about 2.25 miles or 3.7 km. [2] 1 angul = approx. 0.75 inch 4 angul = 1 dharnugrah (bow grip) = 3 in

  4. List of largest palaces - Wikipedia

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    It was the largest palace complex ever built on Earth, [24] covering 4.8 square kilometres (1.9 sq mi), which is 6.7 times the size of the current Forbidden City, or 11 times the size of the Vatican City. The Daming Palace was the imperial palace complex of the Tang dynasty in Chang'an. It served as the imperial residence of the Tang emperors ...

  5. Pyeong - Wikipedia

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    In Korea, the period of Japanese occupation produced a pyeong of ⁠ 400 / 121 ⁠ or 3.3058 m 2.It is the standard traditional measure for real estate floorspace, with an average house reckoned as about 25 pyeong, a studio apartment as 8–12 py, and a garret as 1½ py.

  6. Square kilometre - Wikipedia

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    Each square on the map is 2 cm by 2 cm (4 cm 2) and represents 1 km 2 on the surface of the Earth. For 1:25,000 maps, the grid lines are 4 cm apart. Each square on the map is 4 cm by 4 cm (16 cm 2) and represents 1 km 2 on the surface of the Earth. In each case, the grid lines enclose one square kilometre.

  7. Orders of magnitude (area) - Wikipedia

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    1 mega square meter M(m 2) 1 square kilometre (km 2) 1.76 km 2: New Century Global Center, Chengdu, China (largest building by total floor area) 2 km 2: Monaco (country ranked 192nd by area) [49] 2.59 km 2: 1 square mile [50] 2.9 km 2: City of London (not all of modern London) [51] 10 7 59.5 km 2: Manhattan Island (land area) [52] 61 km 2: San ...

  8. List of United States cities by area - Wikipedia

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    San Francisco is an extreme example: water makes up nearly 80% of its total area of 232 square miles (601 km 2). In many cases an incorporated place is geographically large because its municipal government has merged with the government of the surrounding county.

  9. List of metric units - Wikipedia

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    The angstrom (symbol Å) is a unit of distance used in chemistry and atomic physics equal to 100 pm. The micron (μ) is a unit of distance equal to one micrometre (1 μm). The basic module (M) is a unit of distance equal to one hundred millimetres (100 mm). The myriametre (mym) is a unit of distance equal to ten kilometres (10 km).