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).

Many in their tribe reach 7 feet tall. And yet, not that far away in Congo, members of the Bambuti Tribe are the shortest people in the world. Average height? Under 4-foot-6!

Height varies a lot around the world. Using medical data, Insider calculated average height figures for the 25 shortest countries. Scroll down to see the nations with the shortest people on earth.

The Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina has for years sought federal recognition, and President Donald Trump is pushing for them to have it.

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.

Scientists estimate that about 80 percent of an individual's height is determined by their inherited DNA sequence variations - and a report reveals the countries with the shortest people.

Six native youths within the Winnebago community have been working over the summer to create four short films covering topics about the tribe.

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

Tribes have been limited in how they can respond to the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous people in their communities, but the Yurok Tribe is leading an effort to find solutions that will ...

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.