Maumbile! Meet the tallest man and shortest woman in the world (Photos)

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Lifestyle

The world's tallest man met the world's shortest woman in for a photo shoot in front of the pyramids this week.

Sultan Kosen, a 35-year-old from Turkey, stands at 8ft 3in, making him the tallest man on the planet, while 24-year-old Jyoti Amge from India is the shortest woman in the world at just over 2ft tall.

The two Guinness Wold Record holders met in Cairo last Friday as part of a new campaign aiming to revive the country's struggling tourism industry.

In 2016, he traveled to Hollywood for his starring role in the film Achieving the Impossible.

It was also revealed at the time that he accepted an offer to work on a second movie that was shooting in Australia.

Meanwhile, Amge's restricted height is due to a form of drawfism called achondroplasia. The average female who has the same growth anomaly typically grows to 48 inches tall.

As a teen, she weighed just 11lbs, and she was officially declared the world's smallest woman in 2011 after her 18th birthday.

Amge is an actress and she worked with Jessica Lange and other A-list stars when he stook on the role of Ma Petit in American Horror Story: Freak Show, which aired in 2014.

Source: Daily Mail