Biggest National ID card makes it into world record book
06:39PM Tue 4 Dec, 2012
First of its kind and is 20 times the original size
[caption id="attachment_15947" align="alignleft" width="475"] Abdullah Fadhi Al Muhairbi ( left) Musbeh Al Mismari, (first right) Acting Executive Director for Administrative Affairs and Relations at the Emirates Identity Authority with other officials[/caption]
Abu Dhabi: The biggest Identification Card was revealed on Tuesday by the Sultan Bin Zayed Culture and Media Centre holding President His Highness Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan’s name and picture.
This initiative came under a National Day Project for the Culture and Media Centre called Khalifa in the World’s Languages.
Abdullah Fadel Al Muhairbi from the the Diwan said: “On this day which extends our celebration of the 41st National Day, we are honoured to reveal this National ID card which has now entered the Guinness Book of World Records as it is also considered the first idea of its kind in the book.”
Regional director of Guinness World Records, Talal Omar, said that the idea came form the Sultan Bin Zayed Culture and Media Centre and is an identical copy of the original National ID card which meets all the standards required to break the world record.
The card is 1.4 metres long and 0.86 metres wide making it almost 20 times the size of the original National ID card. According to the Guinness representative, the UAE is in the lead among its Middle Eastern counterparts as it currently holds 110 world records.
Source: GulfNews
Abdullah Fadhi Al Muhairbi ( left) Musbeh Al Mismari, (first right) Acting Executive Director for Administrative Affairs and Relations at the Emirates Identity Authority with other officials[/caption]
Abu Dhabi: The biggest Identification Card was revealed on Tuesday by the Sultan Bin Zayed Culture and Media Centre holding President His Highness Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan’s name and picture.
This initiative came under a National Day Project for the Culture and Media Centre called Khalifa in the World’s Languages.
Abdullah Fadel Al Muhairbi from the the Diwan said: “On this day which extends our celebration of the 41st National Day, we are honoured to reveal this National ID card which has now entered the Guinness Book of World Records as it is also considered the first idea of its kind in the book.”
Regional director of Guinness World Records, Talal Omar, said that the idea came form the Sultan Bin Zayed Culture and Media Centre and is an identical copy of the original National ID card which meets all the standards required to break the world record.
The card is 1.4 metres long and 0.86 metres wide making it almost 20 times the size of the original National ID card. According to the Guinness representative, the UAE is in the lead among its Middle Eastern counterparts as it currently holds 110 world records.
Source: GulfNews
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