How long is your large intestine?

Question

How long is your large intestine?

Answer 1

Long enough that it reaches my bum.

1.5 meters is about 5 feet.

Answer 2

I've never measured mine, but they are roughly 1.5 m long

Answer 3

about three feet! ascending, transverse and decending colon. (as well as sigmoid and r****m!)

Answer 4

probably 10"

Answer 5

it could wrap around the earth 2!

Answer 6

It's largely dependent on the individual... There is much variability in the 'length' of the large bowel amongst people.  There is redundancy in the sigmoid and various anatomic variants in the configuration of the transverse colon.

For these reasons, it's difficult to say how long any given individual's colon is without a formal contrast imaging study (in vivo).