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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.
Monument over Stor-Stina at Brännäs in Malå. Kristina Katarina "Stina Kajsa" Larsdotter (19 January 1819, in Brännäs, Malå – 27 May 1854), known as Långa lappflickan (The Tall Laponia Girl), The Lapland Giantess, and Stor-Stina (Big Stina), was a Sámi woman from Sweden, who aroused great attention among her contemporaries because of her height.
This is a list of Sámi women who ... Agneta Andersson (born 1958), Swedish ... Kristina Katarina Larsdotter (1819–1854), also Stor-Stina, exceptionally tall ...
For one Swedish Instagram model, having long legs — which now propel her modeling career — was once the cause of bullying. Ia Ostergren is a mom of two whose legs measure an astounding 40 inches.
The Swedish anthropologist Bertil Lundman introduced the term "Nordid" to describe the Nordic race in his book The Races and Peoples of Europe (1977) as: "The Nordid race is light-eyed, mostly rather light-haired, low-skulled and long-skulled (dolichocephalic), tall and slender, with more or less narrow face and narrow nose, and low frequency ...
Trijntje Cornelisdochter Keever (10 or 16 April 1616 – 2 July 1633), nicknamed De Groote Meid ('The Tall Girl'), is alleged to be the tallest woman in recorded history, standing 9 Amsterdam feet [1] or 2.60 metres (8 ft 6.75 in) [2] tall at the time of her death at age seventeen. Trijntje Keever was the daughter of Cornelis Keever and Anna ...
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.
In June 2022, Grant became the first woman to win on the European Tour, at the time named the DP World Tour, by winning the Volvo Car Scandinavian Mixed at Halmstad Golf Club in Sweden, a tournament with a field mixed of 78 women and 78 men, playing from different tees for the same title and the same prize money, but divided when counting for ...