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26 Weights and Measures
Making life
easier for you …
How many kilometers is one
mile? What clothes size is a 38?
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Here are some conversion tables to help
you convert measures and weights and
clothing sizes from metric units into
units commonly used by Americans.
Length
1 mm (Millimeter) = 0,039 inches
1 cm (Zentimeter) = 10 mm = 0,394 inches/
0,033 feet/0,011 yard
1 m (Meter) = 100 cm = 39,375 inches/
3,281 feet/1,094 yard
1 km (Kilometer) = 1.000 m = 0,621 miles
Area
1m 2 (Quadratmeter) = 10,76 square feet/
1,2 square yard
Capacity/Volume
100 ml (Milliliter) = 3,38 ounzes/0,21 pints
200 ml = 6,76 ounzes/0,42 pints
0,5 l (LIter) = 500 ml = 1,06 pints
1 l = 1.000 ml = 33,814 ounze/2,1 pints/
1,06 quarts/0,264 gallons
4 l = 1,057 gallons
Weight
100 g (Gramm) = 0,2 pound/3,527 ounce
200 g = 0,4 pound/7,055 ounce
500 g = 1,1 pound
1 kg (Kilogramm) = 2,2 pound
Conversion Tables for Clothing and Shoes
Women’s Clothing
Germany 34 36 36 40 42 44 46 - -
USA 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 - -
Women’s Shoes
Germany 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 - -
USA 5½ 6½ 7 8 9 10 11 - -
Men’s Clothing
Germany 44 46 48 50 52 54 56 58 -
USA 34 36 38 40 42 44 46 48 -
Men‘s Shirts
Germany 36 38 39 41 42 43 44 45 -
USA 14 15 15½ 16 16½ 17 17½ 18 -
Men’s Shoes
Germany 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 -
USA 6½ 7 8 8½ 9½ 10½ 11 11½ -
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