Despite being on the UK Metrication Association's list of 'metric countries', it seems some of the locals in Afghanistan still prefer their own local units of distance. A Western journalist asked a local peasant how far a certain village was from the centre of Kabul. The answer was: "The horse pisses twice". Does the U.N. Directory of 1,639 systems of weights and measures include this unit of distance measurement, and what are the Imperial and metric equivalents?

T Bennett

Whereabouts is their list of countries? I've looked on their website and cannot see it.

Vivian Linacre mentions this statistic in his "Guide to Customary Weights and Measures"

T Bennett