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While some countries make classifications based on broad ancestry groups or characteristics such as skin color (e.g., the white ethnic category in the United States and some other countries), other countries use various ethnic, cultural, linguistic, or religious factors for classification. Ethnic groups may be subdivided into subgroups, which ...
The World Factbook reports white people being 17% of the Nicaragua's population, with an additional 69% of the population being Mestizo, which is described as mixed indigenous and white. [172] In the nineteenth century, Nicaragua was the subject of central European immigration, mostly from Germany , England and the United States , who often ...
At 54.6 cm (21.5 in), Nepalese-born Chandra Bahadur Dangi was, at the time of his death in 2015, the world's shortest person ever verified. This list includes the shortest ever verified people in their lifetime or profession. The entries below are broken down into different categories which range from sex, to age group and occupations.
As of 2020, six states are majority-minority: Hawaii, California, New Mexico, Texas, Nevada, and Maryland. All of these states saw larger declines in the relative share of their non-Latino white populations between 1990-2020 than the national average of -23.5% with Nevada dropping by -41.7%, California by -39.3% and Texas by -34.5%. [citation ...
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg became the youngest person ever, at the age of 16, to be named Time’s Person of the Year in 2019.. Thunberg, now in her 20s, galvanized young people ...
Jyoti Kishanji Amge (born 16 December 1993) [1] is an Indian actress notable for being the world's shortest living woman according to the Guinness World Records. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Following Amge's 18th birthday on 16 December 2011, she was officially declared the world's shortest living woman by Guinness World Records with a height of 62.8 ...
Image credits: Rafal Oleksiewicz / Getty Images #2 Lionel Messi. Lionel Messi is yet another soccer player on this list. Like Ronaldo, the Argentinian megastar started his football career early on ...
In 2012, at the age of 72, Dangi met the world's shortest woman, Jyoti Amge of Nagpur, India. The pair posed together for the 57th edition of The Guinness Book of Records in 2013. [ 5 ] On 13 November 2014, as part of Guinness World Records Day , Dangi met the world's tallest living man, Sultan Kösen , at an event in London.