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- Abraham Lincoln (193 cm, 6′4″) is about 25 cm taller than Napoleon (168 cm, 5′6″).
- This site holds sourced heights for 9,789 people and 462 structures and objects; 2,950 are searchable in the tool above.
- The average U.S. adult man is 175.3 cm (5′9″) and the average woman 161.3 cm (5′4″) per CDC/NHANES.
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How this works
Pick any two (or up to six) entries and the chart draws them to a common scale - silhouettes are stylized pictograms, heights are real. Every height comes from Wikidata's public database and carries its retrieval date; the about page covers sourcing and precision. For a single person's height in every unit, see their page - for example how tall is Barack Obama.