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With Western features, it is hard to recognize the Dutch from the rest of the world. Well, they do have a distinctive feature: they are tall! Height is subjective, but people from The Netherlands are known for being blessed with tall folks, just like those in these pictures.

The typical Dutchman stands at 182.5cm, whereas a Dutch woman is 168.7cm tall. Contrastingly, Americans are slightly smaller, at 177.1cm for men and 163.5cm for women. Surprisingly, a Royal Society of London study, which looked into Dutch military records from the mid-1800s, revealed that they were some of the shortest people on the continent.