Worlds Shortest Man - He Pingping

The official shortest man in the world is He Pingping - (born July 1988), with primordial dwarfism. Pingping holds the Guinness World Record for the worlds smallest man measuring 74.61 cms, or 2 feet and 5.37 inches, who is able to walk.

Independent adjudicators from the Guinness Book of World Records traveled to northern China to verify his claims. The experts measured He three times a day - because the spine compresses over time - and averaged the figures to come up with his official height: 2 feet, 5.37 inches.

He Pingping was born in Huade county, Wulanchabu city in northern China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. At birth he was the size of an adult's palm, according to his father He Yun. Doctors diagnosed his condition as due to the bone deformity Osteogenesis imperfecta, which hinders normal bone growth and body height.

In September 2008 Pingping appeared with the world's longest legged woman, Svetlana Pankratova, in London's Trafalgar Square, to publicize the release of the 2009 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records. Svetlana Pankratova is Russian but lives in Spain. Her legs are nearly 52 inches long.

The world's smallest man He Pingping sits on the lap of Svetlana Pankratova from Russia at Trafalgar Square in London

In 2006 Guinness World Records declined an application from a 14 year old Nepalese boy, Khagendra Thapa Magar, who measures 53 cm tall but will review his application when he is 18 years old.

Younis Edwan, a Jordanian man who claims to be the world's shortest man, has not yet been measured by Guinness World Records.

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