172 cm in Feet and Inches
172 cm is 5 feet 7.72 inches (5′ 8″).
- Feet & inches
- 5 ft 7.72 in
- Rounded
- 5′ 8″
- Decimal feet
- 5.64304 ft
- Total inches
- 67.7165 in
- Meters
- 1.72 m
How it's calculated
- 172 cm ÷ 2.54 = 67.7165 inches
- 67.7165 ÷ 12 = 5 feet, remainder 7.72 inches
- Rounded to the nearest inch: 5′ 8″
For reference, this is about 3 cm shorter than the average US adult man (≈175 cm) and about 10 cm taller than the average US adult woman (≈162 cm). Averages are rounded, from CDC body-measurement surveys.