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Did You Know These Facts About Benin?

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Did you know these facts about Benin?

One, Benin has one of the youngest populations in the world with almost 65% of the population being under the age of 25 years old.

Two, over 1 million people were taken from Benin as slaves and shipped to the Americas for over 100 years, with the last shipment being in 1885.

Three, Ganvie, a town on stilts in Lake Nokoue, is Africa’s largest lake village and a UNESCO World Heritage site often called the Venice of Africa, and was founded by people evading being sold into slavery.