Fiji
Fiji (officially Republic of Fiji) is a country in Melanesia, with its capital at Suva, and is home to roughly 928.8K people.
Its official languages are English, Fijian, Fiji Hindi; the currency in circulation is Fijian dollar ($); people from here are called Fijian.
- »Fiji is made up of over 300 islands, around a third of them inhabited.
- »The 180th meridian passes through the country, so the international date line has been bent around it.
Its territory comes in pieces: one mainland carrying 59% of the area, plus three further landmasses large enough to show up at map scale.
Fiji shares no land border with anything, so every approach is by sea or air. The closest other territories on file are Tonga (806 km), Samoa (1,127 km) and Tuvalu (1,153 km), measured centre to centre.
Suva sits on a peninsula on the wetter side of Viti Levu and became capital in 1882 when the previous capital, Levuka, ran out of room to expand.
18,418 km² (7,111 sq mi), 153rd largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Kuwait.
Population 928,784, 160th of 198 on file. That averages 50 per km² (131 per sq mi).
The light blue is the Pacific; the shield carries sugar cane, a coconut palm, bananas and a dove of peace, with the British lion above.