Magar measured at 26.4 inches (67 centimeters), displacing the former record holder, Edward Nino Hernandez of Colombia, which measures 27 inches (70 centimeters).
Cheers went up when Khagendra Thapa Magar was an official Guinness World Record certificate by Marco Frigatti handed. The ceremony was held in a hotel in Pokhara, Magar birthplace and a popular tourist destination west of Kathmandu.
His family has campaigned for years to come to him the crown, but were refused earlier requests to Guinness because of the possibility that he might grow.
“We are very proud of our son,” said his father Rup Bahadur Thapa Magar. “We have finally recognized and our dreams finally come true.
On Thursday, Magar and his family excitedly welcomed journalists to their rented house, where Magar jumped on the kitchen table and made tea for the press and family members. He also received gifts for his 18th and danced to the sound of a toy drum.
Magar, who weighs just over 12 pounds (5.5 kg) was small, even at birth, weighing only 1.3 pounds (600 grams). His father says he has no explanation for why he never grew longer – his younger brother is a normal height for a boy of 13.
Local doctors are stumped, but lack of facilities for detailed testing.
Magar the doctor for the past five years, he says the body of a three-year-old.
“His body structure is like that of a small child and he thinks and behaves in that way,” Hum Prasad Newpane said.
Magar – who are traveling as part of a company if he is not dancing to help his parents in their fruit shop – seems ready for the media attention that will accompany his new title.
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