Converting plot sizes: What are feet, yards, marlas, and kanals all about?

 

Considerably more problematic than changing over English estimations into Urdu ones is the undertaking of changing over and knowing the spans of plots in feet, yards, meters, marlas, and kanals. Significant disarray is added by the shifting utilization of marlas and kanals in various urban communities, areas, and territories of Pakistan. 

 

Assuming you are from Lahore, hoping to purchase property in some particular area of Islamabad, odds are high that you might be promptly acquainted with marlas however not such a great amount with different wordings for sizes. You ask a property specialist at plot costs in E-11, for instance, and he haphazardly tosses 50*90 at you; it is justifiable for you to feel perplexed briefly. The acknowledgment that he may be discussing feet comes later, lastly, you will understand, he is discussing a 4500 square feet plot, which converts into 500 square yards, which further convert into 20 marlas or 1 kanal.

 

Or on the other hand take the case of Quetta, where the most famous term to utilize is yards (or gazz as it is known in Urdu.) Be that as it may, you will frequently find individuals rotating there among yards and feet. You will be informed the plot size in yards, however when you ask costs, they will commonly be expressed per feet.

 

Also, the leaned toward unit of estimation in Karachi is feet and by and large, the property sizes will be given in per square foot. In any case, yards are famous there too. To eliminate any disarray that you might have about plot size change, here we have every one of the transformations which you can use to helpfully change over one unit of estimation into another: 

Marla	Square Feet	Square Meters	Square Yards (Gazz)
1	225	20.90	25
2	450	41.81	50
3	675	62.71	75
4	900	83.61	100
5	1125	104.52	125
6	1350	125.42	150
7	1575	146.32	175
8	1800	167.22	200
9	2025	188.13	225
10	2250	209.03	250
11	2475	229.93	275
12	2700	250.84	300
13	2925	271.74	325
14	3150	292.64	350
15	3375	313.55	375
16	3600	334.45	400
17	3825	355.35	425
18	4050	376.25	450
19	4275	397.16	475
20 (1 Kanal)	4500	418.06	500