The tribe with the lowest height is the Bambuti, often called the Mbuti. Four groups of Ituri Pygmies, together referred to as the Bambuti, live in the Ituri Forest in the Eastern Congo (Kinshasa).

Historians in Taiwan say the tribe was ethnically linked to short, dark-skinned people who still live in Southeast Asia, including Malaysia and the Philippines. Elsewhere in Asia, they are known ...

The shortest people in the world live on the 11,883-square-mile Southeast Asian island of Timor-Leste. The average Timorese man is just five feet 2.9 inches tall, ...

Here in the shade of sub-panel rainforests lives a tribe of the shortest people on Earth - the Baka pigmies. As it was hundreds years ago they hunt for meat and gather gifts of big trees.

Research tracked height among young adult men and women between 1914 and 2014.