10 World's Tallest Women [PICS]

This is a list of the tallest women in the world today. The tallest came from the country who have its well know great wall, as well as the world's tallest man also came from mainland China. Most assume, people with a high like this will be difficult to move. But the reality it is not. Some of them are succeed as athletes (basketball), go to college, and works like any other.


Yao Defen is currently regarded as the tallest woman in the world with a height reaching 233 cm. She weighs 200 kg and leg size 78 (EU) or 26 (UK). She suffered Gigantism symptoms due to a tumor in the gland under her brain.


Sandy Allen appeared in the Guinness Book of World Records since 1976 until 2008, when she died - as the tallest woman in the world. Her height reached 232 cm.


Malgorzata (aka Margo) Dydek, a basketball player in America, her height reached 218 cm.


Zainab Bibi, (218 cm), currently living in England because she felt her life was disrupted in his hometown, Pakistan.


Her height reached 213 cm, Uljana Semjonova from Latvia origin is a famous basketball player in the world during her time, between the years 1970 to 1980s.


Gitika Srivastava, an American basketball player who came from India, her height reached 211 cm.




This is the tallest woman in Germany, Caroline Welz (20 years) with a height of 206 cm.


Rita lived in the United States, while she was originally from Zambia with height 203 cm.




Actually, the record of human history, the world's tallest woman is Trijntje Kever  with 255 cm tall and live in Hague (Netherlands) between 1616-1633. In 1625 she first arrived in Hague with a circus troupe. At that time her height was about 2 m. Furthermore, each year he visited Hague until her death at the age of 17 in the year 1633. At that time her height had reached 255 cm.