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How tall is Kareem Abdul-Jabbar?

Q: How tall is Kareem Abdul-Jabbar?

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is 218 cm tall, which is 7′2″, as recorded on Wikidata (retrieved September 21, 2026). Recorded heights of real people are approximate.

American basketball player (born 1947)

Recorded height
218 cm 7′2″ · 2.18 m · 85.8 inches

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is 218 cm tall (7′2″) as recorded on Wikidata, retrieved September 21, 2026.
That is 43 cm taller than the average U.S. man (175.3 cm, 5′9″; CDC/NCHS, NHANES 2015-2018 (Vital and Health Statistics Series 3, Number 46, 2021)).

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