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As of 2006, Myanmar government web pages in English used imperial and metric units inconsistently. For instance, the Ministry of Construction used miles to describe the length of roads [4] and square feet for the size of houses, [5] but square kilometres for the total land area of new town developments in Yangon City. [5]
The imperial gallon (imp gal) is defined as 4.546 09 litres, and is or was used in the United Kingdom and its former colonies, including Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, South Africa, Malaysia and some Caribbean countries, while the US liquid gallon (US gal) is defined as 231 cubic inches (3.785 411 784 L), [1] and is used in the ...
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 and continued to be developed through a series of Weights and Measures Acts and amendments.
Myanmar is today primarily a natural gas producer. As of 2015, Myanmar exports gas to Thailand and China. [3] Myanmar had proven gas reserves of 10 trillion cubic feet in 2012, with an annual production capacity of 416 BcF. [14] Oil reserves in 2013 numbered at 50 million barrels, with a production capacity of 21,000 bbl/d. [14]
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Imperial units remain in common everyday use for human body measurements, in particular stones and pounds for weight, and feet and inches for height. Fuel economy is often advertised in miles per imperial gallon, which may lead to some confusion for users of US gallons for American manufactured cars.
The avoirdupois units of mass and weight differ for units larger than a pound (lb). The British imperial system uses a stone of 14 lb, a long hundredweight of 112 lb and a long ton of 2,240 lb. The stone is not a measurement of weight used in the US.
In 2013, Myanmar exported 8561 ktoe of natural gas and 144 ktoe of crude oil. [3] The country is one of the five major energy exporters in the region [ 2 ] and is the second biggest exporter of natural gas in the Asia Pacific region after Indonesia . [ 22 ]