Abstract: Sixteen items and their relevant indices concerning the normal craniofacial part of 771 children of Han nationality in Nanjing district were measured in this paper. Although the cephalic type of children is of the same as that of adults, i.e. short type as a whole (including ultra-short type), both the facial type and the nasal type are quite different. The latter are mainly of platyopia and ultra-platyopia types and the medial type is few, especially the stenotic type; the nose is mostly of platyrrhine type.

Key words: Children; Anthropometry; Nanjing