In the Netherlands, a unit of length = 1 meter. Before metrification, the el was 27.08 inches.
In Indonesia and Surinam 
,
a unit of length, approximately 0.69 meters (approximately 27.1 inches),
derived from the premetrification el
of the Netherlands.
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