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This article is about the unit of weight. For other uses, see Kantar (disambiguation).

A kantar is the official Egyptian weight unit for measuring cotton. It corresponds to the US hundredweight, and is roughly equal to 99.05 pounds, or 45.02 kilograms. It is equal to either 157 kilograms of seed cotton or 50 kilograms of lint cotton.[1]

References

  1. ^ "The Nation in Brief". Business Today Egypt. January 2007.


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