Table of Contents Ask most people what language Lesotho speaks and you’ll get one answer: Sesotho. That answer is correct and also about a decade out of date. Lesotho’s constitution…
Table of Contents The Short Version Colombia’s population breaks down into five recognized groups: Mestizo, White, Afro-Colombian, Indigenous, and Roma (Gitano). Mestizo and White Colombians together make up the large…
Table of Contents Search “languages of Tonga” and you get Tongan, full stop, maybe a line about English being co-official. That’s the answer for a tourist. It’s not the whole…
Table of Contents The quick numbers Ask ten people what percentage of the UAE is Emirati and you’ll get ten different answers, mostly because the sources they’re pulling from disagree…
TLDR Palau’s population, roughly 21,900 people spread across more than 300 islands, is dominated by indigenous Palauans (a Micronesian people with Malayan and Melanesian ancestry), who make up somewhere between…
Table of Contents TLDR Dominica is the only current country whose flag is genuinely red, yellow, and purple. The purple comes from the sisserou parrot at its center, not a…
Quick answer Portuguese is the official language of Guinea-Bissau, but it’s the language almost nobody grew up speaking. That job belongs to Kriyol (also spelled Kriol or Crioulo), a Portuguese-based…
TLDR Nobody’s flag actually does this. No country on Earth flies a flag with true, literal brown alongside orange and black — brown is close to a non-color in national…
TLDR Tuvalu has two official languages: Tuvaluan (the daily language for most of the country) and English (used in government, courts, and schools). There’s a wrinkle, though — on the…
Table of Contents TLDR Four African countries carry Italy’s colonial fingerprint: Libya, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia. Italian never became a native first language for the general population in any of…