Chandra Bahadur Dangi

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Chandra Bahadur Dangi (2012)

Chandra Bahadur Dangi (born November 30, 1939 in Kalimati Rampur , Salyan District , Nepal ; † September 3, 2015 in Pago Pago , American Samoa ) is the smallest person in the world ever reliably measured. He lived in the village of Reemkholi in the Dang Deukhuri district of Nepal. According to official information from the Guinness Book of Records , he was 54.6 cm tall.

Life

His livelihood earned Chandra Bahadur Dangi with the production and sale of hats from jute . It was not until the age of 72 that he was recognized by the Book of Records on February 26, 2012 with a height of 54.6 cm as the smallest adult person in the world. For this purpose, the size had to be confirmed three times within 24 hours. For the survey, he traveled for the first time in his life to the capital Kathmandu, 540 km from his village . Until then he had practically never left his village. After registering, he traveled a lot. In August 2012, he met the smallest woman in the world, Jyoti Amge . In November 2014, in London , he met the world's tallest man, the Kurdish Sultan Kösen . Dangi died on a trip to the South Pacific in a hospital on the Samoa island of Tutuila .

Records

According to the Guinness Book, he was the smallest adult ever measured and broke the record of the Indian Gul Mohammed, who died in 1997 at the age of 40, with a height of 57 centimeters. As the recognized smallest living man in the world, he replaced the 60 cm tall Filipino Junrey Balawing (1993-2020), who took over this title again after Dangi's death. Dangi was also the oldest person who was ever listed in the Guinness Book as the smallest man or the smallest woman in the world.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rachel Swatman: When Edward Niño Hernandez was declared the world's shortest man. In: Guinness World Records , September 6, 2016, accessed May 11, 2020.
  2. ↑ Chandra Bahadur Dangi, smallest person in the world. In: Die Welt , February 26, 2012, accessed on May 12, 2020.
  3. ↑ The smallest man in the world died. Österreichischer Rundfunk , September 5, 2015, accessed on May 12, 2020.
  4. ↑ a b Smallest man in the world comes from Nepal. In: Der Tagesspiegel , February 28, 2012, accessed on May 12, 2020.
  5. ↑ Guinness World Records 2019. German-language edition. P. 84.
  6. ↑ 54 centimeter advertising for Nepal. In: Der Spiegel , February 26, 2012, accessed on May 12, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Dangi, Chandra Bahadur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES चन्द्रबहादुर डाँगी
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nepalese hat maker and smallest person in the world
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Kalimati Rampur , Salyan District , Nepal
DATE OF DEATH 3rd September 2015
Place of death Pago Pago , American Samoa