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WOW! The 50th oldest person on Earth is Hungarian! – Video
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Veronka is 112 years old, she is very happy and likes if there are many young people around her. She is the 50th oldest people in the world currently and lives in Baja, South Hungary.
On February 24, Veronika Zsilinszki became the 50th oldest people on Earth. The second Hungarian is 110-year-old.
Veronika Zsilinszki was born on February 4, 1908
so she is precisely 112 years and 22 days old today. Before and after her, on the list of the world’s most aged people, there are two Americans, Stella Lennox (112 years and 24 days) and Christine Ireland (112 years and 36 days) – Magyar Hang reported.
The list of the oldest living people able to verify their age is reachable on Wikipedia, and the leaders of the list are Americans, Japanese, Italian, Spanish and French nationals. The first one is currently the Japanese Kane Tanaka (117 years and 55 days), the second is the French Lucile Randon (Sister André, 116 years and 13 days) so she is the oldest European currently.
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In the 69th position, there is a Romanian national, Dumitru Comănescu who is 111 years and 110 days old while 46th is a Moldavian woman, Marian Rață with 112 years and 54 days.
Róbert Fercsák, the mayor of Bajaszentistván, visited Veronika Zsilinszki last year and the woman told him that
she is still interested in the matters of the world and likes if there are many young people around her.