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IT SEEMED like something out of a nursery rhyme when the world’s tallest guy — 8-foot-3 Sultan Kösen — met the world’s shortest gal, Jyoti Amge, who’s so teeny, she can practically fit in his shoe!

Turkish-born Kösen, 41, and the petite two-foot 30-year-old from India, who first met in 2018, reunited in California, where they were inducted into the Guinness World Records.

In one mindblowing snapshot showing their size difference, Amge is barely taller than one of Kösen’s shoes.

His feet are really a foot — each measuring 12 inches long, and Amge can almost sit in one of his gigantic clodhoppers.

Her mini-me size is caused by achondroplasia, a type of dwarfism that stopped her growth at her current dimension — about the height of a normal two-year-old.

Kösen was a normal-sized kid until the age of ten, when a tumor that causes pituitary gigantism began shooting him to his gigantic size.

Docs believe they saved his life with an operation that finally stopped his growth. But by then, he was already too tall to join his high school basketball team.

Like Kösen, Amge’s clothes have to be custom made to fit her doll-like size.

Even forks and knives are a special size since regular eating utensils are too big for her to handle.

She attended school using a specially made desk and chair and later appeared on TV shows in India and also American Horror Story, saying: “People like me might be small in stature, but they can also act. Regular people should not underestimate people who are small.”

Meanwhile, Kösen has no problem with the stir he causes when walking down the street.

“When people see me and recognize me, they all want to take a picture with me,” he says.

“Everybody stops me wherever I’m walking. That makes me feel really good.”