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How big is a postage stamp?
2.2 cm
A postage stamp measures 2.2 cm. That's about 314 human-hair widths lined up end to end.
By the numbers
- That's 2.2 cm, or about 0.866 inches.
- You'd need about 77 of them stacked up to reach the height of an average adult.
- Roughly 314 human-hair widths could line up across it.
- Out of all 1,014 things in this collection, it ranks #930 by size.
Size comparison
How postage stamp stacks up against things of a similar size. Tap any bar to explore it.
bottle cap
2.8 cm
coin
2.4 cm
human eye
2.4 cm
bumblebee
2.2 cm
postage stamp
2.2 cm
cherry
2.2 cm
beetle
2.0 cm
four-leaf clover
2.0 cm
grape
2.0 cm
Bars use a logarithmic scale so everything fits — real differences are even more extreme!
Fun fact
You could line up roughly 77 of them along the height of an average person.
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