Afshin Ghaderzadeh ( fa, افشین قادرزاده) (born 13 July 2002) is an Iranian and Kurdish Internet personality who is the shortest living man in the world. He was recognized by the

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in December 2022. He has dimensions of measuring , which is less than the previous person. Ghaderzadeh also holds the Guinness World Record for the smallest

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s on a living person.

Biography

Ghaderzadeh was born on 13 July 2002 to an

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family in

Bukan Bukan ( fa, بوکان, translit=Bukân, ku, بۆکان, translit=Bokan) is the capital of Bukan County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. As of 2016, its population was estimated to be near 193,501 people or 56,000 families. The city is situated e ...

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. He stopped studying because of his physical condition, but with the support provided by Iranian National Records Registration Committee, he was able to record the national record of the smallest living man in Iran and then the world record of the smallest living man in the world. One of his friends manages an Instagram page for him. Ghaderzadeh is fluent in

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and

References

External links

Recorded by Afshin Esmaeil Ghaderzadeh in Guinness
Living people Iranian people of Kurdish descent 2002 births People from Bukan {{Iran-bio-stub