File:Metrication.svg

Size of this PNG preview of this SVG file: 800 × 411 pixels. Other resolutions: 320 × 164 pixels | 640 × 329 pixels | 1,024 × 526 pixels | 1,280 × 657 pixels | 2,560 × 1,314 pixels.

Original file (SVG file, nominally 2,560 × 1,314 pixels, file size: 1.13 MB)

This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. Information from its description page there is shown below.
Commons is a freely licensed media file repository. You can help.

Summary

DescriptionMetrication.svg	English: Map of countries according to their metrication status, based on Metrication article (English Wikipedia).^[1]^[2]^[3] Complete Almost complete Partially complete Little adoption ↑ Ley de Pesas and Medidas del Estado Libre Asociado de Purto Rico: Número de Ley 145 (Law of Weights and Measures of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico: Law No. 145) (in Puerto Rican Spanish). DACO. Puerto Rico Department of Consumer Affairs (27 June 1968). "Section 3: The system of weights and measures commonly used in the United States of America and the decimal metric system, shall be recognized and used in Puerto Rico for all commercial, industrial and agricultural purposes, to the extent of land and in the documents related thereto. , the unit called "rope" may be used, which shall be understood as an equivalence of 3,930,395625 square meters." ↑ 11 GCA Finance & Taxation Ch. 2 Weights & Measures. Judiciary of Guam. "The customary system of weights and measures used in the United States and the metric system of weights and measures are jointly recognized and either one or both of these systems shall be used for all commercial and governmental purposes in the Territory." ↑ Buchholz, Katharina (6 June 2019). Only Three Countries in the World (Officially) Still Use the Imperial System. Statista. "The UK is the country stuck in the middle of both systems, being the birthplace of the imperial system itself. Here, metric is partially adopted but miles persist, and people routinely refer to pints, miles per gallon, pounds and even stone in their everyday lives."
Date	6 January 2016 (original upload date) 17 September 2018
Source	Own work This SVG world map includes elements that have been taken or adapted from this world map: BlankMap-World6.svg.
Author	Carnby
Other versions	Metric system uptake for statutory purposes (SVG files) English: By degree. Data from the English Wikipedia Metrication article, the Law of Weights and Measures of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Weights & Measures law of Guam and a June 2019 article by Katharina Buchholz on the Statista statistics portal. English: By degree. Data from Vera's PhD thesis on metrication in the United States and Mexico (2011). English: By date. Data source not recorded. English: By date. Data from NIST (1975) and Vera's PhD thesis on metrication in the United States and Mexico (2011). English: By system. Data from Statistica, ANSI, en:Metric Conversion Act, en:Metrication in the United States.
SVG development InfoField	The SVG code is valid. This world map was created with Inkscape.

Licensing

I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license:

	This file is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.
	The person who associated a work with this deed has dedicated the work to the public domain by waiving all of their rights to the work worldwide under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights, to the extent allowed by law. You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. CC0falsefalse

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	16:22, 19 October 2019	2,560 × 1,314 (1.13 MB)	A11w1ss3nd	changed orange color to RGB: #ff8800 (=#F80) as used in the legend (better distinguishable from the red hue)
	21:52, 17 July 2019	2,560 × 1,314 (1.06 MB)	Carnby	Updated India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei
	18:30, 2 October 2018	2,560 × 1,314 (1.06 MB)	Carnby	Puerto Rico, Guam (metricated before U.S. rule and mostly metric)
	22:31, 16 September 2018	2,560 × 1,314 (1.06 MB)	Carnby	Updated map according to en.wiki article; human-editable plain text format; if you disagree with my edit, please write me before reverting it
	00:58, 1 December 2016	863 × 443 (2.54 MB)	Thespaceface	Changes upon request of 31.200.8.145
	21:28, 16 November 2016	863 × 443 (2.54 MB)	Thespaceface	more fixes
	20:31, 31 October 2016	863 × 443 (2.52 MB)	Thespaceface	fix
	20:28, 31 October 2016	863 × 443 (2.49 MB)	Thespaceface	better version
	19:07, 6 January 2016	1,500 × 775 (360 KB)	Thespaceface	User created page with UploadWizard