Does any American territory use Metric system instead of Imperial?

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1. Nice try, commie.

   No.

2. Yes, Americans do use both Metric and U.S. Customary Units. At **NO TIME** in our nation’s history we have ever used Imperial, that was a British thing that was created after the United States was established.

3. We consider the metric system to be witchcraft.

4. No, there is one highway in Arizona with metric. In the late 70s they were plans to switch over that eventually fell through. Arizona jumped the gun

5. There are some applications where we use both or tend to use metric units more often than imperial like in medical facilities but no whole state uses metric, no.

6. Puerto Rico uses metric to a greater extent in everyday life than the states.

7. Most Americans use both metric and customary, there aren’t any states or territories that use purely metric though.

8. I have heard rumors that the State of New York does all of it property survey solely in metric units.

9. No. There’s also no state or territory that uses US Customary instead of Metric.

   The entire country uses both, depending on context and what’s appropriate.

10. It bears repeating that USA as such has never at any point used British Imperial units. Metric is used every day by Americans who need to use it.

11. All these metric system fans think their system is so based * 10.

    We’ll have none of that voodoo logic here.

12. This should be a question for Canada. We don’t use imperial.

13. No, but certain products use the metric system depending on what they are. Tires, for example, use millimeters to denote the width. Computer fans are strictly in mm. It has to make a lot of sense to use it over customary in order for us to adopt it.

    For example, I think that inches tend to be a much better unit to measure something like a television, where 65 inches seems an easier number to understand than telling somebody it’s 165cm or 1.65m… same for measuring people. These are going to be much harder to convince people switch over. Same with mph and kmh, the numbers just seem too big from our point of view.

14. We don’t use imperial, you would need to ask Britain for that, for US customary most people can use both if they need to, but for everyday things it’s easier to use customary.

15. Two things, we don’t use Imperial, and yes, everywhere in the US uses metric.

16. Metric is primarily used in academic/scientific context here. In both High School and College metric was used for chemistry and engineering classes and the like.

    Outside of that, we tend to use a weird mix of US units and Metric units (we measure gasoline in gallons but buy soda in 2 liter bottles for example). But it’s not associated with a particular region or state.

17. Technically we use the metric system. In school we learn both and laypeople often use and understand imperial better. But in most scientific settings and such metric is the standard. In fact I think it is the official standard for the US.

18. It really kinda depends on what are you measuring and for who?

    Machine shop? It’s gonna be customary units unless it’s made for China/etc in which case…well there’s gonna be 2 prints.

    Scientific research? Yeah they’re gonna be using metric.

19. Puerto Rico uses it

20. What if I told you that the US doesn’t use Imperial **AT ALL** and never has?

21. Why do so many foreigners think we have never heard of, are incapable of using, and completely write off the metric system?

    Some industries are entirely metric.

    I’m an engineer, and today I’ve already used both metric and US Customary, multiple times.

    Europeans think we’re uncultured for not learning multiple languages.

    All I’m asking them to do is basic math.

22. Ok we get it guys. The U.S. customary system is not exactly the same as imperial. You all knew what the OP meant. You can stop saying that now and answer the actual question…

    Seriously… If you see the comments and 3+ people already said the same thing, why do you feel the need to pile on? I think they get it.

    To OP: to put it simply metric is used professionally in many settings where precise measurements are required (by scientists, doctors, mechanics, architects, etc.) But for everyday stuff we use US customary.

    Basically every state will have the speed limit in miles per hour and measure things like milk and gas by the gallon and if we’re describing distance or weight in casual settings we’ll use feet/inches and pounds.

23. We use SAE and metric.

24. We use both Metric and U.S. Customary Units (not technically Imperial), and honestly only use metric slightly less than several countries that claim to be metric only or predominantly metric.

25. Yes, we all learn both systems in school. Signage will be in US Customary units because that’s how we communicate.

    Wait, so you only learn ONE unit convention in school? That seems a little limiting, don’t you think?

26. Idk about territory, but drug dealers definitely do