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Below are two tables which report the average adult human height by country or geographical region. With regard to the first table, original studies and sources should be consulted for details on methodology and the exact populations measured, surveyed, or considered.
Tallest man in what is today the Czech Republic; his height is also often listed as 242 cm (7 ft 11.5 in). 1841–1886 (45) Öndör Gongor: Mongolia: 240 cm: 7 ft 10.5 in: Very tall man in early-20th-century Mongolia. Was measured by Roy Chapman Andrews. 1880/85–1925/30 Feodor Machnow: Russian Empire: 239 cm 7 ft 10 in
From 1900 to 1968 the man elected U.S. president was always the taller of the two candidates. (Richard Nixon was slightly shorter than George McGovern.)" [ 47 ] A 1978 book titled The Psychology of Person Identification states: "They also say that every President of the USA elected since the turn of the [20th] century has been the taller of the ...
The average height for men and women in the United States is 5'9" and 5'4", respectively. Here are 40 celebrities that are way taller than we realized.
USA TODAY Network will stream debate simulcast on the USA TODAY ... How tall is Kamala Harris? Harris is 5'4. ... will be the first Black woman and South Asian to hold the nation’s highest ...
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.
When Barron Trump, son of Melania Trump, graduated in May 2024, his height was reported as 6-foot, 7. Since July, reports suggest he grew 2 inches.
In anthropology, pygmy peoples are ethnic groups whose average height is unusually short. The term pygmyism is used to describe the phenotype of endemic short stature (as opposed to disproportionate dwarfism occurring in isolated cases in a population) for populations in which adult men are on average less than 150 cm (4 ft 11 in) tall.