how tall is the big friendly giant

The Big Friendly Giant is described as being about 24 feet (around 7.3 meters) tall in Roald Dahl’s story.

Height details

• In the original book and most reference descriptions, the BFG is given a height of 24 feet, making him very tall next to humans but small compared with other giants in Giant Country.

• Fan discussions and analyses sometimes round this to about 7.3 meters when converting into metric units.

Book vs film versions

• The 2016 film adaptation visually represents the BFG at a similar towering scale, but some fan calculations for the movie model put him closer to about 11 meters tall; this is a film-specific interpretation, not the book’s explicit number.

• For most questions like “how tall is the Big Friendly Giant,” the standard accepted answer refers to the book: 24 feet tall.

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