While these three countries continue to use the imperial system, both Liberia and Myanmar are gradually introducing metric units, which are already widely used in some contexts.

Use this free printable to easily convert dry and liquid baking ingredients from imperial to metric or vice versa. We’ve included an oven temperature conversion chart too.

Since 2000, EU rules required Britain to give the metric system priority over the old Imperial system — although both types of measurements are still permitted.

Oxford University in the UK has now decided to educate its students on the basis of the Imperial system of measurement. As you know there are two systems in use today. One is the Imperial and the ...

Has anyone got any genuine reasons why imperial is better than metric, I asked. I got more than 2,000 replies ...

Imperial units and metric conversion Metric units are most often used today, however in some cases imperial units are still used and so it is important to be able to convert between them.

Learn how to convert between metric and imperial units. Convert cms to inches to feet and kilometres to miles in this GCSE maths revision guide.

Environment Canada's use of Celsius turns 50 years old in 2025. It was the catalyst of a lengthy national metric conversion that abruptly ended a decade after it began.

In 1975, Congress passed the Metric Conversion Act, which encouraged businesses to transition to metric units of measurement. Since it wasn’t mandatory—and imperial units would still be ...

Shops in the UK could soon be allowed to ditch the metric system of measurements after ministers said they would review the country’s ban on imperial units in the aftermath of Brexit.