11.   Soviet officials measured comfort by the square meter and privacy was often a luxury.

12.   The average retail floor space per citizen in China is just more than one square meter compared to six square meters in Western countries.

13.   The Canadian unit of wind chill measurement is not the familiar degrees Fahrenheit, but rather watts per square meter.

14.   The government charges real estate developers a cost per square meter of land depending how much the developer plans to increase the useable floor space of a particular parcel.

15.   The scud population in certain areas of the river was measured in thousands per square meter.

16.   Unlike degrees Fahrenheit used in the United States, the units for Canadian wind chills are watts per square meter.

17.   Young Poong owns half a million square meters of real estate in the region.

18.   All families with less than four square meters of space per person are expected to move into larger apartments by the end of this century, the report said.

19.   Bosnian army teams have demined thousands of square meters of minefields throughout the country during the last two weeks, international officials said Thursday.

20.   Despite slack sales, builders have constructed millions of square meters in new housing, creating massive oversupply.