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5'9" tall is a normal for Poland Male height?


Herzegovina  2 | 6  
6 Oct 2013 /  #1
Hi everyone.
I am Bosnian and i am 5'9" (175 cm)
and I am living in serbia. Serbian's average malelheight is 6'1" 185 cm (female: 5'8" 173 cm )
so I feel short. I need to travel Im bored towers :)
and question: 5'9" tall is a normal for Poland Male height?
pierogi2000  4 | 226  
6 Oct 2013 /  #2
interbasket.net/news/4385/2009/09/average-height-by-country-males-20-years
Serbia: 5 '9' .5
Poland: 5 '9' .3

Netherlands 5 '11' .3
McDouche  6 | 282  
6 Oct 2013 /  #3
I'm not sure if that's right. Serbs are supposedly the tallest people on earth. The Dutch are second.
OP Herzegovina  2 | 6  
6 Oct 2013 /  #4
@pierogi2000
You are wrong
Dinaric Alps 1.856 m (6 ft 1 in) 1.711 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in) 1.08 17 N/A Measured 2005

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_height
pierogi2000  4 | 226  
6 Oct 2013 /  #5
Those can't be correct. No way the USA average height is 5 '10'. It's 5 '8' or 5 '9'
OP Herzegovina  2 | 6  
6 Oct 2013 /  #6
did you mean 5'10" tall for USA?
McDouche  6 | 282  
6 Oct 2013 /  #7
Those can't be correct. No way the USA average height is 5 '10'. It's 5 '8' or 5 '9'

It depends on the sample they took. If it was primarily white and black Americans they looked at, then 5'10 seems pretty accurate.
OP Herzegovina  2 | 6  
6 Oct 2013 /  #8
Whatever what is answer of my question :)

5'9" tall is a normal for Poland Male height?
pierogi2000  4 | 226  
6 Oct 2013 /  #9
Well if we're using Wikipedia to judge Serbia, I guess we'll use Wikipedia to judge Poland. Says 1 inch difference in Poland than Serbia.

Unless you are going from Europe to Asia, or Europe to South America. I don't think you'll notice much of a difference although I have been told Dutch are the tallest Euros
Mirten  
5 Mar 2016 /  #10
By the way, are Poles tall? :-)
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Lyzko  41 | 9592  
5 Mar 2016 /  #11
On average, I would say so. As they have a large degree of Germanic background, Poles tend to be taller than, say, most French, Spaniards or Italians, but often somewhat shorter than the majority of Scandinavians:-)
Wulkan  - | 3136  
5 Mar 2016 /  #12
As they have a large degree of Germanic background

That's not the reason of Polish people's height, ethnic Slavs were taller than average.
InPolska  9 | 1796  
5 Mar 2016 /  #13
Come on! A lof of Poles are small too, especially among the older generations and it is very common to find men aged 60 onwards who are even shorter than 1.60 m. Just live in Poland and look around!
Lyzko  41 | 9592  
5 Mar 2016 /  #14
@In-Polska, that may also be due to a vitamin deficiency, of which there was considerable, especially during and immediately after the war:-)
dolnoslask  
5 Mar 2016 /  #15
Don't forget about the Napoleonic wars, there was much interbreeding in Poland at the time, thus some poles are shorter than the norm. ( Inpolska this is sarcasm).

I don't think you can consider any race to have pure untouched DNA, to make true comparisons or assumptions. Therefore there will always be people of different height and eye color,

Darwinian theory and all that.

Just a note a short female fighter Pilot can pull more G than her male equivalent Size does not matter anymore.
Wulkan  - | 3136  
5 Mar 2016 /  #16
A lof of Poles are small too, especially among the older generations

But they are still taller than average man around the world aged 60, use your brain instead of exclamation marks.
Lyzko  41 | 9592  
5 Mar 2016 /  #17
I agree here, Wulkan. Many Polish males have a larger body frame than many other Europeans, except perhaps for Germans:-)

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