Land Measurement ?

[kamatha]

What is the size(width) of a Perch (in feets or meters)?

 

[chkaushalya]

What is the size(width) of a Perch (in feets or meters)?

This was extracted from Wikipedia.

Area

As a unit of area, a square perch (the perch being standardized to equal 16½ feet, or 5½ yards) is equal to a square rod, 301⁄4 square yards (25.29 square metres) or 0.00625 acres. There are 40 square perches to a rood (A rectangular area with edges of one furlong (10 chains ie 40 rods) and one rod respectively), and 160 square perches to an acre (an area one furlong by one chain (ie 4 rods))


link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perch_(unit)

 

[kamatha]

I see that but I am looking for Srilanka Measurement