Trivia Question Of The Day - How Big Is A Hong?

[simon43]

I know about rai and ngan and talang wah etc. But the term 'hong' is used a lot in the Krabi region when describing land areas, and Google is NOT my friend on this question

Out of interest, is this term in common use in other areas of Thailand? I've only met with it in the Krabi region.

Simon

[NADTATIDA1]

It must be a district dialect/slang because i have not heard it before anywere else in Thailand....below is a good chart for reference.

THAI UNITS OF MEASURES AND WEIGHTS

Metric introduced in Thailand in 1923, compulsory from 1947

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Approximately equal to:

With British & Metric British Metric

Equivalents

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Measure of 1 kabiet 3/16 inch 5 mm

Length 4 kabiet 1 nieu 3/4 inch 2.083 cm

0.820 in

12 nieu 1 keub 10 inches 25 cm

0.820 ft

2 keub 1 sawk 1 ft 7 1/2 in 50 cm

1.640 ft

4 sauk 1 wah 6 ft 6 1/4 in 2 m

2.187 yd

20 wah 1 sen 43.74 yards 40 m

400 sen 1 yote 9.942 miles 16 km

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Measure of 1 sq wah 4.784 sq yards 4 sq m

Surface 1 sq wah 0.000989 acres

0.000247 acres 1 sq m

100 sq wah 1 ngan 478.4 sq yards 400 sq m

4 ngan 1 rai 2/5 acre 1,600 sq m

0.395 acre 0.16 ha

1011.736 sq wah 4046.9 sq.m. 1 acre

250,000 sq wah 625 rai 1 sq km

6.25 rai 1 hectare

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Measure of 1 standard tanan 1.760 pt 1 liter

Capacity 20 standard tanan 1 standard sat 4.40 gal 20 liters

50 standard sat 1 standard ban 220 gal 1,000 liters

2 standard ban 1 standard kwien 440 gal 2,000 liters

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Paddy & Rice 1 coyan 16 pikuls paddy 2,133 1/3 lbs 968 kgs

Measure or 22 pikuls cargo rice 1.31 tons 1,330 kgs

1 kwien 23 pikuls white rice 1.37 tons 1,391 kgs

The rice miller's kwien is:

82 baskets of 40 lbs each 24 pikuls 1.46 tons 1,488 kgs

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Weight 1 fung 28.94 gr 1.87 grams

2 fung 1 salung 57.87 gr 3.75 grams

4 salungs 1 baht 0.529 oz 15 grams

1 baht (tical) 1/2 oz (AVDP) 15 grams

4 baht 1 tamlung 2 1/10 oz 60 grams

2.116 oz

10 tamlung 1 catty 1.323 lb 600 grams

2 catty 1 chang 2.646 lb 1.2 kg

100 catty 1 picul 132.28 lb 60 kg

20 tamlung 1 chang (kati) 2 5/8 lbs 1.2 kgs

50 chang 1 hap (pikul) 133 1/3 lbs 60 kgs

20 picul 1 koyan 1.181 ton 1.2 ton

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Customs 1 standard carat 20 centigram

Weight 1 standard catty 600 grams

100 standard catty 1 std picul 60 kilograms

[Soutpeel]

Metric introduced in Thailand in 1923, compulsory from 1947

...almost as long as getting the metric system introduced in the UK....

[SeanMoran]

My 'hong' is around 6m x 4.5m including the 'hong-nam', but this is not in Krabi, so excuse me if I am generalising a local dialect sort ot thing.

[Jdietz]

It varies from person to person... but it's not the size that matters

[Birdman]

Open caves in huge rocks at sea in the Krabi/Phangnga region are called "Hongs".

[WinnieTheKhwai]

^ That'd be 'room' then, as in cave rooms.

Either way, I'm sure the OP can get it converted to standard Thai units. In the end the land office will do the transfer, and land papers still go in tarang wa and rai. So I don't really see the issue, other than when informally talking about land.