What is Centiare?
Centiare is a unit of the area used in the metric system and is synonymous with 1 square meter (M 2 ). The abbreviation for Centiare is ca. Centiare measurements are used almost exclusively for soil measurement and are mostly used in countries where Dutch, French, German, Polish or Portuguese are spoken. Almost all other countries that have accepted the metric system instead use a square meter. To compare this measurement with two common caesarean units specific unit with 1 centiare equals 1.19 square yards and 1 acre equals 4 046.85 centiares. The basic unit expressed in factors 10: 10, 100 and 1,000, etc. The prefixes are used to create multiplier names. These include deca, hecto and kilos for ten, hundreds and thousands and deci, centi and Mill for a tenth, a hundred thousandth. As an example, the meter is a basic unit for length, which means 1 kilometer equals 1,000 meters and 1 millimeter is one thousandth of a meter.
When used for soil measurement, Centiare is commonly used together with the metric unit of the area called "are". In this measurement, 1 equal to 100 m 2 . An example of such soil measurement is 10 Ares 8 Centiares, or 1008 m 2 . The word Centiare literally means "Stotina and is". Other conventional gauge units used for soil areas are hectare, also called hectometer (HM 2
AS was the original basic unit of the area in the metric system, but is not part of the international system of units (SI). The System metric was redesigned in 1960 and given this new name. In the European Union, the use of both are and hectare limited to soil measurement.
The first country that made the metric system was its official system of meRing in France in 1791. Today it is used by most countries in the world. The only countries that officially do not use the metric system are the United States, Liberia and Myanmar (formerly known as Burma).