Paal (unit)

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Paal was a measure of length in Batavia (now Jakarta ), the former Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia ), and was used as a measure of the route. It was also the basis for the area measure of the same name.

Java : 1 Paal = 4800 Voet = 1506.9432 meters
- Java: 1 square = 320 Paal Bouw = 2.270878 square kilometers = 22,708.8 hectares
Sumatra : 1 Paal = 1883.682 meters
- Sumatra: 1 square Paal = 3.54620 square kilometers
- Sumatra: 59.09 Paal = 1 equatorial degree

literature

R. Klimpert: Lexicon of coins, measures, weights, counting types and time values. Verlag C. Regenhardt, Berlin 1896, p. 261.
E. Behm, collective of authors: Geographisches Jahrbuch. Volume 1, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1806, p. XVIII.

Individual evidence

^ Geological Society in Vienna: Treatises of the Geographical Society in Vienna. Volume 6, Verlag R. Lechner (W. Müller), Vienna 1907, p. 116.