The US is officially metric from the Metric Conversion Act of 1975.
I've been to both Liberia and Myanmar, while neither has an official policy
to convert, Liberia is almost 100% metric, speed limit are in km/h, official
temperatures are in Celsius, fuel is sold in liters. In Myanmar, speed
limits are in km/h but signs are in the local Burmese script and not
intelligible to non Burmese. Fuel is sold on ancient pumps in Imperial
Gallons (I last visited in 1997). Fuel at the airport was in Liters, The
Honey truck at the airport doing the lavatory service had a blue water gauge
in US Gallons. So although no official policy exists in either country, both
were predominantly metric just from having speeds in km/h. The rest is just
use of old equipment and use of whatever is imported from the US where
unfortunately the gauge was appropriate to US use.
Michael Payne
----- Original Message -----
From: "Amy Wang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, 19 November, 2005 15:47
Subject: [USMA:35247] Re: liberia and myanmar
Thank you for your responses. To clarify some confusion regarding the
question, I mean to ask what Phil suggested--which countries are not
primarily using the metric system--since officially, the metric system
has been legal in the U.S. in 1866. I have seen the links included in the
emails, and what I am looking for is the organization that did the survey
to say only three countries are not yet predominantly metric (by the way
Myanmar is in Southeast Asia near Thailand, formerly known as Burma). The
survey results are quoted often, but the source remains a mystery to
me...Any ideas?
