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According to a study in France, executives and professionals are 2.6 centimetres (1.0 in) taller, and university students are 2.55 centimetres (1.0 in) taller than the national average. [ 7 ] As this case shows, data taken from a particular social group may not represent a total population in some countries.
This is a list of countries and territories by their average elevation above sea level based on the data published by Central Intelligence Agency, [1] unless another source is cited. The list includes sovereign states and self-governing dependent territories based upon the ISO standard ISO 3166-1.
The average height of 19-year-old Dutch orphans in 1865 was 160 cm (5 ft 3 in). [73] From 1830 to 1857, the average height of a Dutch person decreased, even while Dutch real GNP per capita was growing at an average rate of more than 0.5% per year. The worst decline was in urban areas that in 1847, the urban height penalty was 2.5 cm (1.0 in).
This is a list of European cities by elevation, located above 500 m (1,600 ft)—divided by cities with over 10,000 people, and those with 100,000 or more.The list of those with more than 10,000 people is further divided by elevation above sea level.
The people of the Dinaric Alps are on record as being the tallest in the world, with an average male adolescent height of 185.6 cm (6 ft 1.1 in). [11] The people of Bosnia and Herzegovina have the highest recorded average of any single country, with 183.9 cm average for men and 171.8 cm for women.
Topography of Europe. This article lists the highest natural elevation of each sovereign state on the continent of Europe defined physiographically.. Not all points in this list are mountains or hills, some are simply elevations that are not distinguishable as geographical features.
There are 14 mountains over 8,000 metres (26,247 ft), which are often referred to as the Eight-thousanders. (Some people have claimed there are six more 8,000m peaks in Nepal, making for a total of 20. [1])
The Alps are a crescent shaped geographic feature of central Europe that ranges in an 800 km (500 mi) arc (curved line) from east to west and is 200 km (120 mi) in width. The mean height of the mountain peaks is 2.5 km (1.6 mi). [ 15 ]