Showing posts with label Kanal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kanal. Show all posts

Thursday, April 17, 2014

What is a Kanal?



What is a Kanal?

A Kanal is a unit of land; it is used in Indian Subcontinent for
Dimensions of a Kanal
ONE KANAL
measuring land area. Traditionally, people measure larger piece of land in Kanal. Property developers/ colony developers sell larger houses in 1 Kanal, 2 Kanal, 4 Kanal units.

A Kanal is equal to 20 Marla. There may be variation in measuring ONE Kanal because there are different standards for measuring a Marla. Currently in Pakistan, two different measure are use:

(i) 1 Kanal = 5400 Square feet; and

(ii) 1 Kanal = 5000 Square feet.

If one Marla is 270 square feet, typical dimensions of a one Kanal house is 54X100 Square feet. It means a typical one Kanal house has a length of 100 square feet and width of 54 square feet.


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