A Nepalese man has set the record for the world's shortest living male teenager at a height of 73.43cm (2ft 4.9in).

Dor Bahadur Khapangi, 18, was given a Guinness World Records certificate in Kathmandu on Monday, according to local media reports.

Pictures show him posing alongside his brother Nara Bahadur Khapangi, who carried him to the award ceremony, and CEO of Nepal Tourism Board, Dhananjay Regmi.

He was also seen walking with his young niece Om Kumari Pulami Magar ahead of the event, which was held by the country's national tourism organisation.

Photographers and reporters were later spotted crowding around to take a snap of him posing atop a ledge.

Dor's Guinness World Records certificate reads: "The shortest teenager living (male) is Dor Bahadur Khapangi (Nepal, b. 14 November 2004) who measured an average of 73.43cm (2ft 4.9in) in Kathmandu, Nepal on 23 March 2022."

Previously, Jyoti Amge from India was named the world's shortest living teenager at 61.95cm (2ft) in 2009.

She has since been confirmed as the world's shortest living female, measuring 62.8cm (2ft 0.72in) on her 18th birthday in 2011, and has retained the record for over a decade.

Jyoti once met with Khagendra Thapa Magar, from Nepal, who was named the world's shortest male teenager in 2010.

She said at the time: "When I met the shortest man in the world and got to know him, I felt very happy.

"I felt more included and more satisfied that there is somebody like me too."

Khagendra became the world's shortest living male before sadly passing away at the age of 27 in 2020.

In December last year, an 18-year-old American was given the Guinness World Record title of the shortest non-mobile woman in the world, standing at just 2ft 4inches tall.

Wildine Aumoithe, from Miami, Florida, has the rarest form of dwarfism, known as SADDAN dysplasia, and her parents were told that she wouldn't survive 24 hours after she was born.

However, Wildine defied the odds and celebrated her 18th birthday earlier in 2021. She previously said: "It feels amazing to have a Guinness World Record title, I am really proud of it.

"I am also the first Haitian-American to hold the shortest woman record which makes it even cooler."

She added: "I want people to see that us little people can be very successful and [I want to] advocate for people with dwarfism."

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The lengths these Guinness guys go to come up with records.
But I like the guy. Short and fly.

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With deep pocket women will be fighting and killing themselves just to posses him.

We can't say he is forever young.

Damn, I'm short of words

Wow!

Still looking like a baby a 16.


And they had to dress him like a baby with teddy bear shirt.


Now he has fame.


Nothing is so bad that something good can't come out of it.

If you check now this short guy will have beautiful women flocking around him and I'm here still single and tired of searching

Malory:
With deep pocket women will be fighting and killing themselves just to posses him. The last picture proved it

The last picture is his niece who is also a child. A little reading won't hurt bro.

Abeg this one don pass short.na small . . . . . . . . my 4 year old neighbour kid tall pass am.

Malory:
With deep pocket women will be fighting and killing themselves just to posses him. The last picture proved it

Learn to read and comprehend.
the girl in the last picture is his niece; a family member.

I feel for the lad.

I am confused though, is his brain that of a child or of a teenager.........i mean his sense of reasoning

I didn't read, just scrolled down to see the Picture.

Who else did like me?

Serious

I think if someone is deformed or has stunted growth, they shouldn't say they're short cos this is not a natural appearance.

Ok

Wow

Danku

Malory:
With deep pocket women will be fighting and killing themselves just to posses him. The last picture proved it

Pervert

I see him getting married to a Nigerian girl in Nepal.

This I have seen.

That reminds me of the 2006 movie Little Man

Omo I pity him future wife. The thing go be like small tiger battery.

Wow
God dey create.

I just de reason one rubbish thing now!! I know say some people de reason go that side too!

Please kindly take him to India to meet his wife

Ok

But he's still a baby

So this na record too Abi

Good for him. We are talking about Nigeria politics, you are showing us short teenager.