Cm feet inch - What is 172 cm in feet and inches?

While the United States is one of the few, if not only, countries in which the foot is still widely used, many countries used their own version of the foot prior to metrication, as evidenced by a fairly large list of obsolete feet measurements.

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This resulted in the measurement of a foot varying between 250 mm and 335 mm in the past compared to the current definition of 304.

To convert centimeters to inches you need to divide your figure by 2.