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The square is an Imperial unit of area that is used in the construction industry in the United States and Canada, [1] and was historically used in Australia. One square is equal to 100 square feet . Examples where the unit is used are roofing shingles, metal roofing, vinyl siding, and fibercement siding products.
Comparison of 1 square foot with some Imperial and metric units of area. The square foot (pl. square feet; abbreviated sq ft, sf, or ft 2; also denoted by ' 2 and ⏍) is an imperial unit and U.S. customary unit (non-SI, non-metric) of area, used mainly in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Ghana, Liberia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore and Hong Kong.
A market street in Mong Kok, a residential district in Hong Kong. A bedspace apartment (Chinese: 牀位寓所; pinyin: chuáng wèi yùsuǒ; Jyutping: cong4 wai2 jyu6so2), also called cage home (籠屋; lóngwū; lung4uk1), coffin cubicle, or coffin home (棺材房; guāncai fáng; gun1coi4 fong2), is a type of residence that is only large enough for one loft bed surrounded by a metal cage.
In India, studio apartments in general are called one room kitchen (1RK) apartment featuring a hallway with a bedroom with a bathroom and attached kitchenette to the hall mostly used by one or two people or a small family ranging from 200 to 450 square feet (19 to 42 m 2). Italy In Italy, Italians call them "monolocale", meaning "one room".
A lower-rise apartment building on the left side of the Avenue of the Americas in Manhattan, juxtaposed next to a skyscraper apartment building. An apartment (American English, Canadian English), flat (British English, Indian English, South African English) [a], or unit (Australian English) is a self-contained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) that occupies part of a building ...
The Sims 2: Apartment Life is a broad-scope expansion pack. In its official guide, the lawyer and game strategy guide writer Greg Kramer introduced the expansion as focused on communities, positing that the title was chosen because apartments are "a microcosm of what it means to be part of a community" rather than because of any particular focus on apartments themselves. [11]
1:100,000 maps are divided into squares representing 1 km 2, each square on the map being one square centimetre in area and representing 1 km 2 on the surface of the Earth. For 1:50,000 maps, the grid lines are 2 cm apart. 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 example, 1 kilometre is 10 3 (one thousand) times the length of 1 metre, but 1 square kilometre is (10 3) 2 (10 6, one million) times the area of 1 square metre, and 1 cubic kilometre is (10 3) 3 (10 9, one billion) cubic metres.