Although most of the world now use the metric system, efforts made to have it adopted by the URP have so far come to nothing and the provinces still use the traditional measuring system of pre-revolutionary France.
Distance[]
| 2 grain | = 1 ligne |
| 12 lignes | = 1 pouce |
| 12 pouces | = 1 pied |
| 6 pieds | = 1 toise |
| 3 toises | = 1 perche |
| 10 perches | = 1 arpent |
| 84 arpents | = 1 lieue |