in this episode of FTD facts
we're journeying into the continent of Africa and exploring the federal republic of Nigeria commonly known simply as
Nigeria, [it's] a land filled with music and colors and beautiful people. What's happening everybody?
My name is Leroy, Kenton
And I wanted to give you guys facts about nigeria for a long time a lot of you guys requested it so now
Let's take a look when we get into the facts guys. I want to know when you think of Africa
[what's] the first thing that comes to mind for me? It's the food like gel [Op], right
[oh] my goodness, so good all your nigerians watching this know exactly what I'm talking about now the name, Nigeria
Where did [it] even come from?
Nigeria get this name from the river niger and that actually is [the] largest river in West Africa the name was coined
[by] a late 19th century British journalist named Flora shaw now the River covers a distance of
2600 Miles and runs into the Atlantic Ocean via the gulf of guinea after it passes through a huge Delta known as the niger Delta
Now the niger Delta is the second largest Delta in the world Nigeria is also a very multicultural place there are over
500 ethnic groups in Nigeria and the three largest of those are xhosa iGbo and Yoruba but not just
multicultural is also
Multilingual Nigeria has [7%] of the total amount of languages spoken on Earth although the official language in Nigeria is English
There's also
600 Distinct language groups there, so it's very multicultural very multilingual, but when it comes to religion
There's like three of them all right not just [three] [of] them, but they have three basic religions
And that's Islam Christianity and the traditional religion islam is prevalent in the Northern part of Nigeria
Christianity is heavily practiced in the Eastern part of Nigeria as well as in the middle of the country and we have the traditional religion
according to history Islam was introduced to Nigeria by a trader from Mali and
Christianity was introduced by British missionaries this
Nigeria is also at times considered to be the giant of Africa
Why okay? So let's take a look nigeria has a very large population and economy
[it's] the most populous of black nation in the Earth as well as a seventh most
Populous country in the world with a population of a hundred and eighty nine
Million people at the time of filming this and did you also know [that] nearly half the population?
Of Nigeria is younger than 15 years old the yoruba ethnic group has the highest rate of twins in the world
[IGbo]
Aura which is a little town in the oil [state] has been nicknamed the twin capital of the world because of its unusual
High birth rate for Twin the estimated it's about one hundred and fifty eight twins per 1000 births
Yeah
That's pretty high [now] many people do speculate that this high birth rate is due to the large consumption of yam by Nigerian
What was it again? That's just a rumor yams are good for you. Though eat your yams. I love some food. Oh my gosh
Despite its large population
Nigeria is still largely a rural country
only [48] [percent] of the population actually live in cities the walls of benin constructed from 800 to
1400 ad is located in the present edo state these walls are the largest ancient earthwork in the world and probably the largest man-made
Structure on Earth they enclosed
6,500 square kilometers of land and they're over [sixteen] thousand kilometres along
Originally the walls of Benin were thought to be twice as long as the great wall of China
however back in 2012 after very careful
Measuring it was announced that you know the great wall of China is still the longest wall ever and that measures that
21,000 kilometers long now according to the world Resources institute
Nigeria is home to four thousand seven hundred and fifteen different types of plant species and over five [hundred] and fifty species of Breeding Birds
And mammals now let's talk about the movie industry in nigeria the movie industry dubbed
Nollywood is the second biggest movie industry in the I thought I
Did not see the fire when you find now that is in terms of production of movies first
We have Bollywood in India Nollywood in Nigeria
and then Hollywood in America
And in fact Nollywood produces up [to] 50 movies a week that in terms of the output [that] is over a thousand movies
Annually [ok] so check out these numbers 0 1 0 1 0 1 those numbers actually refer to the meals of the day
So if you have 0 1 0 it means that you get breakfast and dinner
But you have lunch and if you have 1 0 1 that means you have breakfast and dinner, but you [skip] lunch now
We know that nigeria has a very rich culture and a huge economy, but who's the richest person in Nigeria?
Here's the Nigerian billionaire Alico Dango 2 is always better to be humble. You know this is a new [conditions] permanent
He is estimated to be worth [12.1] billion dollars according to the latest report
he's a ceo of the dangoty group and currently he's 59 years old now this brings us to the end of our first journey of
Nigeria definitely tons more [to] look at in this country
So if you have any facts for any future parts of nigeria you can send them [to] our [e-mail] at FTD fax at gmail.com
[and] also let me know down below if you do want a part [-] this is our first fact video on any
African country and it's only the beginning of our journey throughout Africa