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Some countries may have significant height gaps between different regions. For instance, one survey shows there is 10.8 centimetres (4.3 in) gap between the tallest state and the shortest state in Germany. [6]
The worst of them was a guy whose insult was always like, ‘You’re huge; you’re a man.’” She said that she had “always been taller than most guys” but felt “normal-sized” when she ...
Height measurement using a stadiometer. Human height or stature is the distance from the bottom of the feet to the top of the head in a human body, standing erect.It is measured using a stadiometer, [1] in centimetres when using the metric system or SI system, [2] [3] or feet and inches when using United States customary units or the imperial system.
Modern Chinese people have long considered the ideal woman's body to be relatively tall, slim, and curvaceous. [22] Fascination towards height has continued to increase as evidenced by Chinese beauty pageant winners, but this could correlate more to global pageant standards rather than cultural ideals. [ 23 ]
She was a seven-foot center and the most dominant women's basketball player in the history of the game. [178] born 1952 Kristina Larsdotter: Sweden: 210 cm 6 ft 10 in Better known as Stor-Stina (Big Stina), she was a Sami woman with gigantism, who was examined by Swedish anatomists and later toured internationally under the stage name The ...
A 2012 study found that both men and women are willing to excuse height differences by using a trade-off approach. Men may compensate 1.3 BMI units with a 1 percent higher wage than their wife. Women may compensate 2 BMI units with an additional year of higher education. [24]
A woman who is 36–24–36 (91–61–91 cm) at 5 ft 2 in (1.57 m) height will look different from a woman who is 36–24–36 at 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) height. If both are the same weight, the taller woman has a much lower body mass index; if they have the same BMI, the weight is distributed around a greater volume.
Lisina held two world records: the record for the woman with the longest legs, with her left leg at 132.8 cm (52.28 in/4 ft 4.28 in) and her right leg at 132.2 cm (52.04 in/4 ft 4.04 in), and for the tallest professional model at 205.16 cm (80.77 in/6 ft 8.77 in), and has also been officially recognized as having the largest feet for a woman in Russia (EU 47/US 16), all of which was awarded by ...