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This page lists World records by category. There is also World records which gives alphabetical listing.
Human mental and physical achievement and traits
Anatomy
- Tallest: Robert Pershing Wadlow, 2.72 m (8 ft 11.1 in) *
- Shortest: Gul Mohammed, 0.57 m (1 ft 8.7 in)
- Heaviest Man: Jon Brower Minnoch, 635 kg (1,400 lb) *
- Heaviest Woman: Carol Yager, 725 kg (1,600 lb)
- Greatest Height Difference Between A Married Couple: 3' 1.2" (94.5 cm), Favien Pretou and Natalie Lucius
Physiology
- Oldest (claimed, but still unverified): Maria do Carmo, 128 years
- Oldest (verified): Jeanne Calment, 122 years *
- Oldest (living): Maria Esther de Capovilla, 116 years 85 days (December 9, 2005) *
Sports
- Longest Table Tennis Rally: Brian Seibel and Steve Seibel, 8 h 15 min 1 s
- Longest Wrestling Bout: Martin Klein beat Alfred Asikainen, 11 h 40 min
- Longest Cricket Marathon: Cricket Club des Ormes, 26 h 13 min
Culture and society
History
General
- Largest empire: British Empire, 37 million km² (1912)
Military history
- Battles
- Largest naval battle: Matter of definition, see Largest naval battle in history
Media
Radio
- Longest-running radio show: Rambling With Gambling (1925-2000), hosts John B. Gambling, John A. Gambling, John R. Gambling
Asian World Records
- Longest Violin marathon by an individual - L. Athira Krishna (32 hours)
Television
- Largest Audience For A TV Series: Baywatch, 1.1 billion viewers
- Largest cash prize won on a TV game show: Ken Jennings at Jeopardy, $2,520,700 (£1,352,597 or €2,009,486)
- Longest Running Animated TV Series: The Simpsons (1989-Present)
- Longest-running chat show: The Late Late Show (1962-Present), hosts Gay Byrne, Pat Kenny, Frank Hall
- Most Emmys For A TV Series In A Season: The West Wing, Nine Emmys
- Most Expensive TV Mini Series: Band of Brothers, $125 million (£79 million)
- Most Expensive TV Program: ER, $13.1 million per show
- Most Hours on Camera: Regis Philbin, 15,188 hours
- Most Popular Children's Educational Program: Sesame Street, 180 countries
- Most Seizures Caused By A TV Program: Pokémon, 700 seizures
- Most Successful TV Soap: ''Dallas, 90 countries
- Most TV Spin-Off Series: Ultraman, 14 series
Movie
- Longest Movie: The Cure for Insomnia, 5220 minutes (87 h)
- Most Expensive Movie Made: Titanic, $210 million
- Most Oscars Won by a Film: Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, Ben Hur, and Titanic, 11 each
- Most Portrayed Character In Horror Movies: Dracula, 162 films
- Most Swearing In An Animated Movie: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, 399 swear words
- Star Of Most Films Earning Over $100 Million: Harrison Ford, 15 films
- Longest Movie Title: Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (72 characters)
- Highest grossing film (after adjusting for inflation): Gone With the Wind *
Music
- Longest Violin marathon by an individual: L. Athira Krishna
- Biggest All-Times Sales For A Band: The Beatles
- Biggest All-Time Sales for A Solo Artist: Michael Jackson
- Most "the most expletives in a #1 song". "Fuck It" by Eamon Doyle
- Most mentions of Freddie Mitchell: "Freddie Mitchell VS Chandler Bing" by The Doctors
- Biggest Selling Album of All-Time: Thriller by Michael Jackson
- Most Successful Act In UK Chart History: Queen (more than 1,322 Weeks)*
- Most covered song: "Yesterday", by The Beatles, (more than 3000 covers)
- Most Awarded Recording Artist in Music's History: Michael Jackson
- Most expensive Music Video ever: Scream by Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson
- Longest-Running Rock Group Fan Club: Queen
- Longest Album Title: When the Pawn..., by Fiona Apple. (90 words)
- Shortest Song: "You Suffer", by Napalm Death. (1.316 s)
- Longest running song by a female group: "Independent Women Part I", by Destiny's Child (2001)
- Shortest Music Video: Collateral Damage, by Brutal Truth. (2.18 seconds)
- Longest Music Video: Ghosts, by Michael Jackson. (35 min)
- First completely sampled album: Endtroducing....., by DJ Shadow (1996).
- Most Successful Virtual Band: Gorillaz
- Best Selling Rap/Hip-Hoper: Tupac Shakur
Eating and Drinking Records
- Bicycle: Michael Lolito (Monsieur Mangetout), 10 bicycles consumed between 1966 and 1990
- Beer speed drinking record (1 liter in 1.3 seconds). (1)
Painting
Largest collection of fake masterpieces: 3,500, owned by Christophe PetytPolitical entities
Independent countries
- Largest by population: China, 1.3 billion
- Smallest by population: Vatican City, 932
- Largest by surface area: Russia, 17,075,200 km²
- Smallest by surface area: Vatican City, 0.44 km²
Institutions
- Oldest monarchy: Japan
- Oldest parliament: Althing, Iceland, founded 930
- Largest parliament: China, close to 3,000 MPs members
- Oldest parliamentarian to win an election: Ratu Wilisoni Tuiketei Malani winning the Ra Province Constituency seat during the 1994 Fiji Islands Election at age 74 and retiring at age 79 in 1999.
Leaders
- Longest currently serving head of state: King Rama IX of Thailand, since 1946
- Longest serving head of state ever: King Pepi II of Egypt, 2221 BC - 2118 BC (94 years).
- Oldest serving President of a country: Ratu Josefa Iloilo Uluivuda of the Fiji Islands at 86 years as at 2006.
Sculpture
- Heaviest sculpture: Statue of Liberty, 24000 tons (54 million lb)
Language
- Most spoken language: Mandarin Chinese
Man-made objects
Buildings
General records
- Tallest buildings and structures: see World's tallest structures.
- Largest single-roof building: Millennium Dome, diameter 365 m
- Largest wooden structure: Daibutsuden (Great Buddha Hall), Todai-ji, Nara
- Oldest wooden structures: Horyu-ji, Nara
- Fastest wooden roller coaster: Son of Beast
- Fastest and tallest roller coaster: Kingda Ka
Bridges
Tunnels
Monuments
- Pyramids
- Largest: Great Pyramid of Cholula, 4.45 million m³
- Tallest: Great Pyramid of Giza, 138.8 m (height today), 146.6 m (original height)
Transportation
Commercial aircraft
- Largest: Antonov An-225
- Largest passenger aircraft: Airbus A380
Military
- Army
- Largest Infantry: China
- Navy
- Naval vessels
- Largest displacement: Nimitz class aircraft carrier, 97,000 tons (98,600 t)
- Longest: USS Enterprise (CVN-65), 336 m
- Largest Battleship: Japanese battleship Yamato, 65,000 tons (72,808 t)
- Largest military aircraft: Lockheed C-5 Galaxy
- Airforce
- Largest Airforce: China
Infrastructure
- Steepest street: Baldwin Street, Dunedin, New Zealand
Spaceflight
Places of worship
- Churches
- Largest: Basilica of Our Lady of Peace of Yamoussoukro
- Tallest: Ulm Munster
Physical phenomena
Geography
Islands
- Largest: Officially, Greenland. Australia is sometimes considered an island but is more commonly defined as a continent
- Remotest inhabited: Tristan da Cunha
Lakes
- Fresh water lakes
- Deepest: Lake Baikal, 1,637 m
- Largest by surface area: Lake Superior, 82,000 km²
- Largest by volume: Lake Baikal, 23,000 km³
- Salt water lakes
- Largest: Caspian Sea, 371,000 km²
Mountains
- Highest: Mount Everest, 8,848 m (see measurement section on Everest page)
- Highest known mountain in the Solar System: Olympus Mons, Mars (approx: 27 km)
Rivers
- Largest average discharge: Amazon, 219,000 m³/s
- Longest: Nile, 6,695 km (matter of dispute, see also List of rivers by length)
- Shortest: Roe River, 201 ft (61 m)
- Longest canal: Grand Canal of China 1,794 km
Geology
Caves
- Deepest: Voronya Cave, 2,080 m
- Largest cave system: Mammoth Cave
- Largest open space: Sarawak chamber
Gemstones
- Diamonds
- Largest cut diamond: The Golden Jubilee, 545.67 carats (109.13 g)
- Largest uncut diamond: Cullinan Diamond, 3,106.75 carats (621.350 g)
- Rubies
- Largest cut ruby: Rajaratna Ruby, 2,475 carats (495.0 g)
Biological phenomenona
General records
- Largest organism: see Largest organism
- Smallest genome: Mycoplasma genitalium, 580,000 base pairs
Animals
General
- Largest: Blue whale, 140 tons
- Largest land animal: Elephant, 7 tons
Invertebrates
- Largest: Colossal Squid
Birds
- Largest: Ostrich, up to 155 kg
- Greatest wingspan: Wandering albatross, up to 3.45 m
Mammals
- Fastest: Cheetah, up to 100 km/h (62 mi/h)
- Largest: Blue whale, 127 t (140 tons)
- Smallest: Pygmy Shrew, 2.5 g (38.58 grains)
- Smallest cattle: Vechur cow 1.24 m (48.8 in) long, 0.87 m (34.25 in) tall.
- Smallest breed of dog: chihuahua
- Tallest dog: Irish Wolfhound, up to 8 feet upright; the tallest recorded was 5 feet at the shoulders.
Bacteria and archea
- Largest: Thiomargarita namibiensis, 0.75 mm
- Largest number of genes: Streptomyces coelicolor
- Smallest genome: Mycoplasma genitalium, 580,000 base pairs
Plants
- Largest: General Sherman tree
- Largest flower: Rafflesia arnoldii, 11 kg
- Largest seed: Coco de mer
- Oldest: bristlecone pine, Methuselah, 4,700 years
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References
Guinness Book of World Records, 1990-2006 editions
"List of world records"