In China, a unit of distance = 250 li, approximately 161.2 kilometers (about 100.14 miles).
International Critical Tables (1926), page 4.
In Mongolia , ? – 20ᵗʰ centuries, a unit of length, the distance from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the outstretched middle finger.
Folke Boberg.
Mongolian-English Dictionary.
Stockholm: Förlaget Filadelfia, 1954-55.
Page 1025.
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