Kanal (unit)

Kanal (unit)

A kanal is a unit of area.

Description

A kanal is a traditional unit of land area in Pakistan (and also in some parts of India), equal to 20 marlas. Under British rule the marla and kanal were standardized so that the kanal equals exactly 605 square yards or 1/8 acre; this is equivalent to about 505.857 square meters [ [http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/dictK.html How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement - University of North Carolina] ] .

Conversions

A kanal is equal to:
*
* 506 m²
* 20 marlas
* 605 square yards (Gaz in local languages and Urdu)

Usually people widely use this unit in Punjab and Islamabad. Whereas cities like Karachi, Hyderabad etc do not use kanals or marlas, they use yards (Gaz in Urdu) to measure land specifically. This unit creates much confusion among people when discussing the size of land when people plan to buy land in other cities. For example, a person in Karachi who wants to buy land in Lahore would be confused as he would not know the size of the land as he has been climatized with yards not marlas. Well same goes the other way round if someone from Lahore wants to buy land in Karachi. Well this confusion has not been looked into by the Government and no restriction of unit has been imposed yet. People are carrying on and this needs to be cleared everywhere specially by the property dealers and print media. So people get climitized with both of the units and know the details of each unit and its conversion.

Some of the commonly avalible land size have been specified below with converted values and region {Formula is 1 marla = 30.25 sq yards (Gaz in Urdu): Lahore, Islamabad etc: 3 marla = 90.75 sq yards (Gaz in Urdu),5 marla = 151.25 sq yards (Gaz in Urdu),7.5 marla = 226.875 sq yards (Gaz in Urdu),10 marla = 302.5 sq yards (Gaz in Urdu),15 marla = 453.75 sq yards (Gaz in Urdu),1 Kanal = 605 sq yards (Gaz in Urdu),

Karachi, Hyderabad etc:

125 sq yards (Gaz in Urdu) = 4.13 marla, 150 sq yards (Gaz in Urdu) = 4.95 marla,250 sq yards (Gaz in Urdu) = 8.26 marla,400 sq yards (Gaz in Urdu) = 13.22 marla,500 sq yards (Gaz in Urdu) = 16.52 marla,600 sq yards (Gaz in Urdu) = 19.83 marla,1000 sq yards (Gaz in Urdu) = 33.05 marla,

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