Tallest People in Each Country

From TallPeople.net

The purpose of this list is to determine the distribution of tall people in the world. The tallest people and the average height of population in each country will be recorded.

The list is ordered alphabetically by country.

Each person is listed by their geneological origin, except for United States, as long as the person moved to US before reaching age of 3.

If you find any incorrect data, please notify us so we can research more on the issue.

Items listed are:

1. Height 2. Weight 3. Name 4. Date of Birth 5. Place of residence if different 6. Ethnicity 7. Source

The current Tallest Man in the world is thought to be 8-4 (254cm) Leonid Stadnik of Ukraine.

The current Tallest Woman in the world is thought to be 7-7 (232cm) Sandy Allen of United States.

Bangladesh

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Belarus

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Women:

208cm (6-10) Elena Kravchenko (1979)

Bolivia

Men:

212cm (6-11) Gustavo Garcia Belzu (1976) chamaleon

Women:

190cm (6-3) Maria Antonieta Villarroel (1973) chamaleon

189cm (6-2) Sandra Soria Vargas (1979) chamaleon

Brazil

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Women:

225cm (7-5) Maria Feliciana Santos

Cameroon

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Women:

208cm (6-10) Suzy Bendegue

China

Men:

238cm (7-9) Xi Shun (1951)

235cm (7-9) Ming-Ming Sun

Women:

208cm (6-10) Li Liu (1989)

Columbia

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189cm (6-2) Astrid Cortes (1968)

Congo

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Egypt

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Estonia

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208cm (6-10) Jaana Kotova (1974)

Ethiopia

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Finland

Men:

247cm (8-0.25) Väinö Myllyrinne

France

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Women:

204cm (6-8) Martine Lefebvre

Germany

Men:

215cm (7-1) Alexander Kühl (1973)

215cm (7-1) Jochen Kühl (1975)

Women:

206cm (6-9) Antje Dethloff

205cm (6-8) Caroline Welz (1986)

India

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Women:

210cm (6-11) Gitika Srivastava (1980)

Indonesia

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Iran

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Ireland

Men:

223cm (7-3) Shaun Aisbitt (1962)

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Israel

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Women:

206cm (6-9) Suzy Gyarfash (1974)

Italy

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Women:

204cm (6-8) Eva Giauro (1986)

Japan

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Korea, North

Men:

238cm (7-9) Myung-Hoon (Mike) Lee

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Korea, South

Men:

223cm (7-4) Seung-Jin Ha (1985)

Women:

205cm (6-8) Young-Hee Kim

202cm (6-7) Eun-Ju Ha (1983)

Mexico

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Nigeria

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Pakistan

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Women:

210cm (6-11) Zainab Bibi

Philippines

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Poland

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Women:

218cm (7-2) Margo Dydek (1974)

Russia

Men:

Women:

207cm (6-9) Darina Yegerova (1987)

206cm (6-9) Ekaterina Gamova (1980)

206cm (6-9) Nelly Fonova (1983)

Spain

Men:

221cm (7-3) Roberto Duenas

Women:

208cm (6-10) Silvia Mesa (1978)

Sri Lanka

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Women:

208cm (6-10) Dharshani Sivalingam

Sweden

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Thailand

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Tunisia

Men:

236cm (7-9) Radhouane Charbib

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Turkey

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Women:

6-10 (208cm) Ebru Nur Ozyilmaz (1991)

Ukraine

Men:

253cm (8-4) Leonid Stadnik

Women:

214cm (7-0) Lyuba Shilo

United Kingdom

Men:

Women:

204cm (6-8) Sarah Fowler 204cm (6-8) Geraldine Walton (1984)

United States Men:

Women:

232cm (7-7) Sandy Allen (1955)

212cm (6-11) Gwen Bachman

Vietnam

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