What race has the tallest average height?

1. The Netherlands — 175.62cm (5 feet 7.96 inches) Dutch people are the world's tallest, with an average height of 175.62cm (5 feet 7.96 inches.) Dutch men are an average 182.53cm (5 feet 11.86 inches) tall.
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Which race is the tallest?

Among the findings the team found that: * Dutch men are the tallest on the planet, with an average height of 182.5cm. Latvian women are the tallest on the planet, with an average height of 170cm. * The top four tallest countries for men are the Netherlands, Belgium, Estonia and Latvia.
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Which race has the shortest height?

1. Timor-Leste — 155.47cm (5 feet 1.28 inches) People on the Southeast Asian island of Timor are an average 155.47cm (5 feet 1.28 inches) tall.
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What nationality has the tallest height?

According to the report, the Netherlands is still the world's tallest nation with the average height in the country for men 183.78 cm, or 6 foot, and 170.36 cm, or 5 foot 7 inches for women.
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Which races are taller?

Race is one big factor. Medical examination data maintained by the CDC shows white (average height of 5-foot-10 rounded to the nearest inch) and black (5-foot-9) men tend to be significantly taller than Asian (5-foot-7) or Hispanic (5-foot-7) men.
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Average Human Height by Country (2020) | Height Comparison



What races are the shortest?

Countries With The Shortest Average Heights
  • Malaysia (5 feet, 2.75 inches) ...
  • Vietnam (5 feet, 2.5 inches) ...
  • India (5 feet, 2.25 inches) ...
  • Peru (5 feet, 2 inches) ...
  • Sri Lanka (5 feet, 1.5 inches) ...
  • Philippines (5 feet, 1.5 inches) ...
  • Indonesia (4 feet, 11.75 inches) ...
  • Bolivia (4 feet, 11.5 inches)
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Is height related to race?

Ethnicity is an important factor determining the height of an individual. Ethnically different populations might respond differently to the same environmental factors and thus the final height in different ethnic groups is different. Height is a polygenic trait with a high degree of heritability.
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What is the height of Jesus?

He may have stood about 5-ft. -5-in. (166 cm) tall, the average man's height at the time.
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Which country has shortest people?

At the other end of the spectrum are the top ten countries with the shortest average height, which currently include:
  • The Philippines 63.7 inches.
  • Vietnam 63.82 inches.
  • Cambodia 63.98 inches.
  • Nepal 64.17 inches.
  • Ecuador 64.37 inches.
  • Sri Lanka 64.41 inches.
  • Nigeria 64.49 inches.
  • Peru 64.57 inches.
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Are the Dutch the tallest race?

At just over 6 feet for men and about 5-foot-6 for women, the Dutch are still the world's tallest population.
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Which nationality is the shortest?

The country with the shortest people in the world is actually East Timor, or Timor-Leste, which is an island country in Southeast Asia. The average height of people on this island is just 5 feet 1.28 inches, or 155.47 centimeters.
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What is the most attractive height for a man?

Confidence is also an attractive trait and so shorter men and women with an abundance of self-confidence will often appear taller to those around them. Those same studies also found that some men are too tall. The most attractive height range for men is between 5'11” and 6'3”.
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What African tribe is the tallest?

The tallest major tribe in the world is the Tutsi (also known as the Watussi) of Rwanda and Burundi, Central Africa whose young adult males average 1.83 m (6 ft).
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Which race has the best hair?

Caucasian, Asian and Indian hair samples were put to the test for the World's Best Hair study. Their results put an end to any splitting of hairs over the issue: in terms of health, the Indian hair is the best, topping other ethnic groups on all four counts.
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Are Indians short?

Indian children are among the shortest in the world, and the country's preference for sons might be to blame. Globally, one in four children under the age of five is stunted—that is, they grew at a slower rate than a healthy child would. This stunting is manifest in shorter than average height.
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Are Germans tall?

The average German is 172.87cm (5 feet 8.06 inches) tall on average. The average German man is 179.88cm (5 feet 8.81 inches) tall. The average German woman is 165.86cm (5 feet 5.29 inches) tall.
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What was Goliath height?

The oldest manuscripts, namely the Dead Sea Scrolls text of Samuel from the late 1st century BCE, the 1st-century CE historian Josephus, and the major Septuagint manuscripts, all give it as "four cubits and a span" (6 feet 9 inches or 2.06 metres), whereas the Masoretic Text has "six cubits and a span" (9 feet 9 inches ...
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Did Jesus have a wife?

"Christian tradition has long held that Jesus was not married, even though no reliable historical evidence exists to support that claim," King said in a press release.
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What was the height of Adam?

A Hadith from Sahih al-Bukhari narrated by Abu Hurairah states that Adam was created 60 cubits tall (about 30 meters), and that people in Paradise will look like Adam. The height of humans has since decreased. The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Allah created Adam in His picture, sixty cubits (about 30 meters) in height.
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Why are Europeans so tall?

In a paper published in Nature, the researchers show that northern Europeans seem to have a stronger genetic link to a particularly tall nomadic population from the Eurasian steppe who came to Europe around 4,500 years ago. Because of these genes, northern Europeans are still tall compared to others on the continent.
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Can two short parents have a tall child?

And yes! A person's height can be inherited from his or her parents. Frequently, the norm is tall kids from tall parents and short kids from short parents.
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Why are Dinka so tall?

Though there has been a lot of speculation about the cause of the tall height of the Dinka people, the most common explanation is their nutrition which is said to primary milk and organic food.
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How tall is a dark elf?

They usually varied in height from four feet seven inches to five feet five inches and weighed from 80 to 155 pounds on average.
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