Watch: Iran's Afshin Ghaderzadeh Is Crowned The World's Shortest Man
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The shortest living man is Afshin Ghaderzadeh from Iran, who was measured at 65.24 cm (2 ft. 1.68 in.) in Dubai, UAE, on December 13, 2022.
Guinness World Records has announced that Iran's Afshin Esmaeil Ghaderzadeh has become the world's shortest man as of Tuesday, after measuring 7 centimetre shorter than the previous record holder. Twenty-year-old Afshin Esmaeil Ghaderzadeh is the world's shortest man now, with a height of 65.24 centimetres (2 feet, 1.6 inches).
According to Guinness World Records, he is almost 7 centimetres (2.7 inches) shorter than the previous record holder, 36-year-old Edward "Nino" Hernandez (Colombia). Afshin is the fourth-shortest man ever verified by Guinness World Records.
He was flown to our Dubai office, where measurements were taken three times over the course of 24 hours, resulting in the accurate record height. While in Dubai, Afshin enjoyed trips to the tailor and barber before ticking an item off his bucket list: visiting the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa.
