Everybody welcome back to flag slash fan Friday. Hope you like the Nigeria episode
So as you know
There's the part where I talk about the small mistakes or things that didn't quite make it into the episode for one. Yes
I know I mispronounced a lot of words. There are a few spelling errors
For example, it's Benway River. Not Ben, you might even come on it
Looks like Ben knew I accidentally said that the current president was house. Ah, he's actually Fulani and in physical geography
the oil rivers was actually just kind of like the southern part of the Delta of the natio River not everything to the west of
It otherwise one thing we wanted to talk more about but didn't have enough time
How did Nigeria get so populous I got this email from geography mochi Sola?
They said polygamy is not only allowed but only 23 of the 36 states have adopted the child's rights act in the Constitution passed in
2003 that states the minimum age of 18 being for marriage usually in the north house of states
The rates are highest for women marrying before 18 and having children earlier many sociologists speculate that this in addition to the high
Migration rate from other African countries is one of the leading factors on how their population just exploded
Also on a sad note Nigeria is the second most brain drained country in the world after Greece
They're actually the most educated immigrant group in the USA
The problem is they might send remittance money
But they don't really want to go back to the homeland and invest their skills kind of sad
But it happens on a lighter note
metallurgy was very prevalent in the EFA and oil cultures their sculptures incorporated a caste technique that allowed a
Sophisticated level of aesthetic realism unseen until the Renaissance they have that do fauna canoe the third oldest in the world
They have the oldest Water Works in Africa. They have the second longest bridge in Africa
Another thing I wanted to talk about is how they have 17 free trade zones
Very similar to those economic zones we talked about in the China episode. There's a strange cultural taboo with the Effie
kandi
BPO women for some of the women they go to these
Fattening rooms before they get married and they just eat and gorge themselves until they gain a lot of weight
It's considered very attractive to be fat in those cultures and finally a lot of times in Nigeria
Let alone many countries in Africa, you might find people with some very funny sounding names names like knowledge fine face
Thank God government triumphant Windows 95. I mean, they're former President was named good luck pretty interesting
What's the weirdest name? You've heard from somebody in Africa Oh an ksi is Nigerian. Anyway, we got to move on to the flag
so without further ado you
I
Love how in the episode half of all the comments were just people talking about my duolingo shirt, by the way
Yes, I do have permission to wear their logo. Also fun fact that Nigerian print skin
I did with Keith that was actually based off of an email. I got like eight years ago. No joke
Anyway the flag
the flag of Nigeria is a
Bicolor tribe and with two green vans on the sides and one in the middle
The two green bands stand for the natural wealth of the nation. Whereas the white band stands for peace, and that's it
Like literally that's it. It's not complicated
I mean, sometimes you might see the flag with the coat of arms on it
But we'll talk about the coat of arms in a sec. Keep in mind prior to this
they were under the British and had a bunch of
Historical flags under the British Empire kind of kept changing because the British kept getting more land
Inland and finally when they took over the Sokoto Caliphate they had all of Nigeria also
Keep in mind some of the states of Nigeria have their own state flag
So I'm look really cool and others are just pretty simple and they just have the name of the state on the flag and historically
Some sub-national regions of Nigeria have their own Flags too and a British Admiral brought back this flag showing a man
Chopping off the head of another man. Supposedly it came from the kingdom of Benin
but anyway
Yeah
Moving on to the coat of arms a little more detail the image contains a black shield representing the fertile soil with a y-shaped
Division called a paul symbolizing the fork at the nadir and Benway rivers on the sides are two white horses
representing dignity
then there's the eagle on top which
represents strength
Sitting on green and white bands the colors of the flag on the bottom it all stands on the grassy field with the national flower
A Costas spectabilis, which represents the beauty of the nation. It's finally a scroll at the bottom areas reads unity faith
Peace and progress the national motto fun side note
It used to be peace unity and freedom wonder why they took away the freedom part. Anywho prior to this
They had a bunch of other coat of arms mostly under the british protectorate years
Usually it was just the british coat of arms with a little title banner around it saying Nigeria or something
otherwise prior to that when only
Lagos was colonized. They had this emblem had a little elephant on it with a little L and prior to that
It was just West African settlements. So yeah, that's pretty much it when it comes to night is symbolism
And I guess that means we only have one more thing to do
So without further ado, you know what time it is. It's time for geography fan mail time
All right, so we're about to begin. But before we do we need a guest star come on in
Mr. Kenneth, n' i'm kenneth and ronon
Hey, I can't so you know how we always do this you've done this many times. We start off with postcard, okay?
We got a postcard from Larry. He's from Orlando, but
She's visiting Sri Lanka Daniel from Massachusetts visited, Mesa Verde, Colorado
I I think this is from Portugal only because there's there's Portuguese written on it. Oh no Brazil Oh Brazil Brazil. Yeah
Oh, yeah
Siena B. Starts with the C see yes, it starts with letter C from Brazil
Okay this letter I don't know where it's from. It's from Elsa. All I know is that has a bunch of pictures of
Wildlife from the desert. We have a postcard from volition lick lick lick lick lick lick Finch Tyne
Lichtenstein was that right? Yes. Oh, wow. Yeah, this is originally for Hannah, but you will never get it. Just yeah. All right
Well Hayden who visited?
Bassing sir. Where's this China or something after some extensive google researching. This is where it is from in post-production Wow
Credible information. All right. So now letters eloquent writing. It's just like I feel it's another gynecologist
Giovanni sent us a picture of their dog Coco who loves geography now how much your dog loves the show
We're gonna test your dog later. Yeah. Well, we'll see how much this dog is a real fan
Ashley who is a half Brazilian half asian person from Louisiana. Whoa, that's cool
And oh, this is so cool
she said recipes for pecan pralines and shrimp and grits two very iconic dishes from the south and
Also a flag of Louisiana, Louisiana is like the one state I have not been to that
I really want to go to Asians speak really weird French by the way, you known examples of occasion
So for example, if they're gonna sing like this French song, it's like Jim Ballad a soon Avenue couldn't laugh at you
yeah, it's like they were like
It's weird. We have a letter from Laura. She's from Oklahoma
Who came a new professor and was asked to teach world music last minute. Oh, that's great
Because we we added a segment for world music like with Keith describing every so often when we talk about music on the show
Yeah, I showed my class your Kyra bus episode which I was in Oh fun fact
Kiddo bus is the first time I've had a segment in geography now
We never hosted our segments until then. Now. You're the island guy. Now the island guy. Yeah. Yes. I should be go get cocky
Yeah, or you put me in an island?
Well, thank you Laura. This is a great lovely letter. We got penny from Vermont originally from Michigan. It's pop not soda
Yeah, she gets it now. I still say soda. No, it's pop I changed my mic. No, I
Sent two coasters from citizen cider or one of the local cider companies in the area. Do you brew cider?
Oh, there are alcoholic cider. We have a package from
Switzerland this letter is from Jamie. They're discontinued switz rappin and Frank
Oh that was wrong. Cuz frog Swiss a Swiss frogs. Oh, I forgot. He also sent two postcard. Thank you. Jamie
is from
Gaurav from India. I belong to the state of Haryana and India
It would be great
If you explored more about my state and one day make a video about it in your YouTube channel
We did do an Indian states video and we did talk about it very briefly
He sends these old Indian letter cards and postcards
Okay, so we got a letter from Andrew from Bristol UK
Yeah, our accent is a pirate accent. I'm not joking Oh
Blackbeard was from Bristol. I didn't even know that - really
Yeah
Because well most pirates come from Bristol or I'm not sure if any of the city in the UK has this other than us
Please find this enclosed five Bristol pound an estimate about a five English Pounds. What?
Yeah, you can only use it in Bristol, but its equivalent to five pounds like real breathe. It's nifty little artwork dude. Thank you
So much Andrew, this is really nifty
I love like the seeing really cool-looking currencies that are like rare you look at this and you're like
Is that real this from Catherine from Georgia? My name is Catherine. I'm a college student of the great state of Georgia
I'm a big fan of your show. I had the privilege of studying abroad last year in New Zealand, Australia and Fiji
Therefore I'm sending you coins from New Zealand and Fiji because I lost the Australian one. Sorry, that's okay
We have a lot of Australian coins. Don't worry. Cool Catherine. I don't know if we have any Fiji coins yet
So that's pretty cool. Thank you. This is the Fiji coins. This one is for you Ken Oh from Ireland
Oh my god, it's even like written out in like big bold markers Wow, mister. They put this sticker on the night
no, maybe when the post office does that what I'm reading so far it says
Benjamin we're gonna say Benjamin, uh-oh. It comes in another bag. What does this bag? Come in? Another see-through bag is earlier
There's a letter here with you being part Irish. I thought I would send you an Irish flag
Just like I have sent Paul Ben. This is my country. This is my O'Donnell
How do you feel right now Ken with that Irish flag? I feel pretty patriotic to the Irish community top of the morning to you
So funny because in the Nigeria episode your Filipino mom comes up and she's like, yes like your Filipino put y'all's wires
Yeah, man, and finally we got one last package from Mike Wow, that is on a big package. It's a big one
So he's from the US but he traveled to Qatar and the UAE
Of course flag of cotton. This is beautiful
This is the actual panorama view of Doha the capital city
They call this the condom phallic-shaped building. That's what they're known for
It's great to know that you could be identified by a condom by a condom
I sent you all that stuff from Oman you were the guy I remember now. Thank you
I still have some of that stuff. Doha was beautiful and I was surprised I liked it better than Dubai fun fact
I actually kind of did to Dubai was too crowded too touristy
I could barely even see Burj Khalifa building because everybody was crowding around it. Got me annoyed. I agree with you man
I'm sorry Dubai, but Doha kind of blew my mind away. Yes
whoa
Look at this Wow, like the way it's even cut and with all the holes and
There's a hole in the bottom is this. Oh, I think you put like a candle in here
This is like he says this is a candle with the word culture on it a hat from the UAE
Nice little UAE flag on it. I never wear hats here. I don't I don't wear a hat either
We have to wear hats to some really awesome
Postcards and pamphlet. This is a really cool. Notebook badges and pins a oh wow
This is a wool poster little controversial because it says Palestine. Yeah
Israeli subscribers, I don't choose what gets sent to me. But this is it's this is wool. Wow. Look at that
Alright, so, uh that is just about it. But before we go, you know what time it is
Return address contest. Yes, sir. So basically I put all your return addresses in this bag
I put return addresses from you guys in these bags Ken's gonna pick one out and whoever wins gets a geography now
Notepad and button, which you could find at the website down below jagged no comma so Ken go for it. No, I'm reaching it
Go for it. We got Gabriel from Switzerland Gabriel
Congratulation one anyway guys, so that's just about it. Thank you for just putting your hometowns and countries on display
We love doing it on this show
You guys are such a great part of the show and we love doing this any last words for the jogger peeps and Ken
Thank you guys so much. My mind is blown away of all the stuff that you guys send every week you guys Rock
You're awesome. Hope you have a good one. Stay cool. Stay tuned. Bye