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Substantial confusion can exist when it comes to the numbering system as used in Pakistan and other
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However, this can be particularly irksome for the investors or buyers trying to convert one numbering
system into another one. How much is a crore? How much is a 100 million? How much is 1,000,000?
This can be doubly confusing for people, particularly overseas Pakistanis, who will have to convert a Blog Archives
foreign currency into Pakistani Rupees and, at the same time, perform this conversion too. To assist
you with the process, here’s a table on how you can convert Pakistani currency values into 2018
International values, along with the numerals as well.
August (10)
July (56)
June (56)
English Urdu Numbers May (70)
One Ek 1 April (62)
Ten Das 10 March (57)
One hundred Sau 100 February (62)
One thousand Hazar 1,000
January (87)
Ten thousand Das hazar 10,000
One hundred 2017 
Ek lakh 100,000
thousand
One million Das lakh 1,000,000 2016

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Ten million Ek crore 10,000,000
2015
One hundred
Das crore 100,000,000
million 2014
One billion Arab 1,000,000,000
Ten billion Das arab 10,000,000,000 2013
One hundred
Kharab 100,000,000,000
billion 2012
One trillion Das kharab 1,000,000,000,000
2011

2010

Now, whenever you need to convert English numbers into Urdu ones, you don’t have to summon your
inner mathematician to arrange them in your head and count all the way to a trillion to find out that 20
million is 2 crore; that 500,000 translates to five lakh (or five hundred thousand) , and that 30 crore
equals 300 million in words or 300,000,000 in numbers.

This can be better understood if we look at it from the perspective of prices of property since that is
where the problem generally arises: Take an example of a house that costs 2 crore and 55 lakh
Pakistani Rupees (PKR). Translated into English, this will be PKR 25.5 million; and in numerals, it will
be PKR 25,500,000.

Consider another plot that costs PKR 3,500,000. Converted into the English numeral system, it will be
3.5 million; converted into Urdu, it will be PKR 35 lakh.

Finally, an apartment that costs PKR 5.7 million when converted in Urdu will amount to PKR 57 lakh
and when converted into numerals will be PKR 5,700,000.

Another helpful way to understand all this will be the placement of separators (usually a comma). In
the International numbering system, the separators are placed after every three digits from the right,
and so the names of the numbers change after a thousand. For example, a million is thousand
thousand; a billion is a thousand million, and a trillion is a thousand billion.

In the Urdu numbering system, the separators occur after every two digits. So, a thousand is hazar; a
hundred hazar is a lakh; a hundred lakh a crore; and, a hundred crore is arab.

While we have given tables and examples above, Zameen.com makes it incredibly easy for you to
convert numbers. In fact, you don’t even have to make the effort, as Zameen.com itself translates the
given price from numbers into their English and Urdu terminologies.

Not only that, it also gives you the price in several foreign currencies too, including Brazilian Reals,
Canadian Dollars, Euro, Kuwaiti Dinars, Qatari Riyals, Saudi Riyals, Turkish Liras, UAE Dirhams,
Great Britain Pounds Sterling and US Dollars. All you have to do is take your cursor onto the price as
shown in the image below for Lahore’s property listings:

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So, if you are looking to convert prices of property, Zameen.com has you covered! Do you have any
questions about this piece? You can talk to us in the comments section. You can also head to the
Zameen Forum for a detailed discussion.

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Muhammad Farhad is a Content Developer at Zameen.com.

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