Guides to measuring land in Nepal
Practical explanations of Nepali land units, Mero Kitta (मेरो कित्ता), how to read a naksa, and how to get a reliable area from a drawing or a tape measure.
Dhur, Katha, Ropani and Bigha in square feet
The numbers people actually type into Google: how many square feet is 10 Dhur, 1 Katha, 1 Ropani or 1 Bigha in Nepal — plus Katha to Ropani, Aana to square metres, and Bigha to hectare.
Mero Kitta Nepal: official website, app and login
Mero Kitta is the Survey Department portal for map print, plot register and field book. Here is the official website, the Android app, how login actually works, and what to do with the naksha once you have it.
Mero Kitta number check online
A kitta number is the parcel's name in the survey record. Here is where to find it, what Mero Kitta will actually check, and how to confirm the area once you have the sheet.
Mero Kitta naksha and map: download, read and measure
A Mero Kitta map print is the official kitta naksha. Here is how to download it, how to read it, and how to trace the boundary so you get a usable area in every Nepali unit.
How to use Mero Kitta, step by step
From opening the portal to holding a naksha PDF you can measure: the documents to prepare, the order the form asks for them, what the OTP is really for, and how to print the file without wrecking its scale.
Everything Naapi Plotter can do
It started as a box you typed a number into. It is now a proper measuring tool: load your naksa, set the scale, trace the boundary, measure any two points, keep several plots in one project and export the lot. Here is the full tour.
How to calculate land area in Nepal
Ropani in the hills, Bigha in the Terai, square feet on the listing. Here is how the units fit together and three practical ways to get the area of a plot.
How to read a Nepali naksa
Kitta numbers, boundaries, scale bars and what to do when the drawing has no scale printed on it at all.
Measure land area from a photo of your naksa
A phone photo plus one known length is enough to measure a plot. Here is the whole process, and the mistakes that quietly ruin the result.
Naapi in Nepal: the department, the office, the naksa and the apps
Naapi is the Nepali word for measurement and surveying, and it is also the name people use for the Survey Department, the district survey office, and the map that office produces. Here is what each one actually is.
Gharjagga in Nepal: reading a listing and checking the area
Ghar is house, jagga is land, and gharjagga is the whole property trade. Most of what goes wrong in it goes wrong in the first two lines of the advert — the area and the rate. Here is how to read both.
10 Dhur in square feet
10 Dhur is 1,822.5 square feet: exactly half a Katha, a fortieth of a Bigha, and 169.32 square metres. Here is the arithmetic, the full table, and how to check that your plot really is 10 Dhur.
Measure a plot
Reading about it only gets you so far. Open a naksa and measure it.
