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	Fiji - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Republic of the Fiji Islands, or Fiji, is an island nation in the South Pacific Ocean, east of Vanuatu, west of Tonga and south of Tuvalu.
		Fiji's membership of the Commonwealth of Nations was suspended due to the anti-democratic activities connected with the 2000 coup.
		The population of Fiji is divided between native Fijians, a people of mixed Polynesian and Melanesian ancestory (54.3%), and Indo-Fijians (38.1%), descendants of Indian contract labourers brought to the islands by the British in the 19th century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fiji (2017 words)

	Fiji Info
		Fiji, officially the Republic of the Fiji Islands, is an island nation in the South Pacific Ocean east of Vanuatu, west of Tonga and south of Tuvalu.
		Fiji consists of 322 islands, of which 106 are inhabited, and 522 smaller islets.
		The population of Fiji is mostly made up of native Fijians, a people of mixed Polynesian (partly Tongan) and Melanesian ancestry (54.3%), and Indo-Fijians (38.1%), descendants of Indian contract labourers brought to the islands by the British in the nineteenth century.
	www.paralumun.com /citfiji.htm (1981 words)

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		The Republic of the Fiji Islands, or Fiji, is an island nation in the South Pacific Ocean, east of Vanuatu, west of Tonga and south of Tuvalu.
		Fiji's membership of the Commonwealth of Nations was suspended due to the anti-democratic activities connected with the 2000 coup.
		The population of Fiji is mostly made up of native Fijians, a people of mixed Polynesian and Melanesian ancestory (54.3%), and Indians (racially termed Indo-Fijians) (38.1%), descendants of Indian contract labourers brought to the islands by the British in the 19th century.
	www.algebra.com /~pavlovd/wiki/Fiji (2299 words)

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		Fiji (Fijian: Matanitu ko Viti; Fijian Hindustani: फ़िजी), officially the Republic of the Fiji Islands, is an island nation in the South Pacific Ocean east of Vanuatu, west of Tonga and south of Tuvalu.
		Fiji’s Main Island is known as Viti Levu and it is from this that the name "Fiji" is derived, through the pronunciation of their island neighbours in Tonga.
		Politics of Fiji normally take place in the framework of a parliamentary representative democratic republic, whereby the Prime Minister of Fiji is the head of government, the President the head of state, and of a multi-party system.
	www.clarkandpartners.co.uk /wiki.php?title=Fiji (3024 words)

	Encyclopedia: List-of-Fiji related-topics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Fiji was a British Crown Colony from 1874 to 1970, and an independent dominion in the British Commonwealth from 1970 to 1987.
		Ratu Joni Madraiwiwi Ratu Joni Madraiwiwi (born 1957) is the Vice-President of Fiji.
		The Tui Cakau is the Paramount Chief of Cakaudrove Province in Fiji.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/List_of_Fiji-related_topics (7380 words)

	Fiji - Gurupedia
		The Republic of the Fiji Islands occupies an archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean, east of
		For a country of its size, Fiji has exceptionally capable armed forces, and has been a major contributor to UN peacekeeping missions in various parts of the world.
		Fiji's Head of State is the President, who is elected by the Great Council of Chiefs for a five-year term.
	www.gurupedia.com /f/fi/fiji.htm (1288 words)

	Fiji Diving (TRAVELMAXIA.COM) - Fiji Islands Travel
		The population of Fiji at the end of June, 1996 was 775,000.
		The Fiji school system is based on the New Zealand curriculum, which until 1989 allowed students to sit for New Zealand high school exams.
		Tertiary education is provided in Suva at the regional University of the South Pacific (USP), the Fiji School of Medicine, the Fiji School of Agriculture, School of Maritime Studies, as well as 3 teacher training colleges.
	www.travelmaxia.com /fiji/fiji_demog.cfm (302 words)

	fj (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The first inhabitants of Fiji arrived from South East Asia long before the islands were discovered by European explorers in the 17th century.
		Democratic rule was interrupted by two military coups in 1987, caused by concern over a government perceived as dominated by the Indian community.
		A 1990 constitution favored native Melanesian control of Fiji, but led to heavy Indian emigration; the population loss resulted in economic difficulties, but ensured that Melanesians became the majority.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Fj.html (582 words)

	Fiji - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The only major skyscraper in all of Fiji is the Reserve Bank of Fiji Building in Suva.
		The population of Fiji is divided almost equally between native Fijians, a people of mixed Polynesian and Melanesian ancestory (51%), and Indo-Fijians (43.7%), descendent of Indian contract laborers brought to the islands by the British in the 19th century.
		The Methodist church is the largest denomination; with about a quarter of the total population (including about 48 percent of ethnic Fijians), it has a higher percentage of the population in Fiji than in any other country.
	encyclopedia.learnthis.info /f/fi/fiji.html (1409 words)

	Fiji (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The first inhabitants of Fiji arrived from South East Asia longbefore the islands were discovered by European explorers in the 17th century.
		Fiji, endowed with forest, mineral, and fish resources, is one of the mostdeveloped of the Pacific island economies, though still with a large subsistence sector.
		The population of Fiji is divided almost equally between native Fijians, a people of mixed Polynesian and Melanesian ancestory (51%), and Indo-Fijians (43.7%), descendent of Indian contract laborers broughtto the islands by the British in the 19th century.
	www.therfcc.org /fiji-16375.html (1301 words)

	Fiji - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The upper chamber of the parliament, the Senate, has 32 members, formally appointed by the President on the nomination of the Great Council of Chiefs (14), the Prime Minister (9), the Leader of the Opposition (8), and the Rotuman Islands Council (1).
		The island of Rotuma, north of the main archipelago, has the status of a dependency, with a small degree of internal autonomy.
		The only major skyscraper in all of Fiji is the 14-story Reserve Bank of Fiji Building in Suva.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Fiji (1412 words)

	Fajian Fact and Figures ~ Kai Viti Divers Scuba Diving Expeditions and Adventures :: Dive Fiji, Tonga, Vanuatu, New ...
		Fiji has a climate ideally suited for the outdoors, the beach and surf, for light cotton dresses, barbecues and water sports.
		Fiji is a multiracial and multicultural nation with a population of 775,077 (1996 Census report).
		Fiji is free of most tropical diseases - there is no malaria or yellow fever in the country.
	www.kaivitidivers.com /af_facts.html (687 words)

	Demographics of Fiji - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Indo-Fijian population has grown rapidly from the 61,000 indentured laborers brought from India between 1879 and 1916 to work in the sugarcane fields.
		Thousands more Indians migrated voluntarily in the 1920s and 1930s and formed the core of Fiji's business class.
		The native Fijians live throughout the country, while the Indo-Fijians reside primarily near the urban centers and in the cane-producing areas of the two main islands.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Demographics_of_Fiji (346 words)

	worldsurface.com - sustainable tourism for backpackers and independent travellers
		The people of Fiji are of mixed Melanesian-Polynesian stock; their language, Fijian, is spoken in many dialects.
		Asian Indians, descendants of labourers who migrated to Fiji to work on sugar estates in 1879, composed about one-half of the population and slightly outnumbered the Fijians in the early 1980s.
		Fiji's birth and death rates are lower than those for Micronesia and Polynesia as a whole, and its average annual rate of population growth is somewhat higher than for most other countries in Oceania.
	www.worldsurface.com /browse/static.asp?staticpageid=462 (204 words)

	Fiji Demographics and Geography - Columbia Gazetteer of the World Online
		Fiji includes islands variously estimated at c.320 to 800 in number, of which some 150 are inhabited.
		Fiji’s chief towns are generally seaports: Suva and Lautoka on Viti Levu; and Levuka, on Ovalau, an island E of Viti Levu.
		In 1987, following the second military coup in six months by Colonel Sitiveni Rabuka, Fiji was declared a republic, left the Commonwealth, and barred non-Fijians from being elected president or prime minister.
	www.columbiagazetteer.org /public/Fiji.html (696 words)

	Fiji Constitutional Committee Report
		Fiji census reports over the past several decades document a dramatic shift in the distribution of Rotumans, with an ever-increasing proportion recorded away from their home island.
		Rotumans in Fiji are employed not only by the government but by private organisations; according to the 1976 Fiji census, 583 Rotumans worked for the government while 1,042 held positions in the private sector.
		The fact that more than two-thirds of the current population of Rotumans now reside in Fiji, and that a substantial proportion of this population was born and reared there, suggests that Fiji may be replacing Rotuma as the 'homebase' of the Rotuman population.
	www.hawaii.edu /oceanic/rotuma/os/howsel/28FijiConRpt.html (10287 words)

	DEMOGRAPHICS OF FIJI : Encyclopedia Entry
		Indigenous Fijians, the native inhabitants of Fiji, are a mixture of Polynesian and Melanesian, resulting from the original migrations to the South Pacific many centuries ago.
		The Indo-Fijian population has grown rapidly from the 61,000 indentured laborers brought from India between 1879 and 1916 to work in the sugarcane fields.
		The native Fijians live throughout the country, while the Indo-Fijians reside primarily near the urban centers and in the cane-producing areas of the two main islands.
	www.bibleocean.com /OmniDefinition/Demographics_of_Fiji (347 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Nukulau Island
		It is an island rich in history, which has played a pivotal role in Fiji's demographic and political development over the past 160 years.
		Cakobau's inability to pay was a major factor in his decision to cede the islands to the United Kingdom in 1874, ushering in almost a century of British rule.
		Today, Nukulau is now best known as the location of Fiji's jail, where George Speight, the instigator of the 2000 coup that deposed Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry's government, is now serving a life-sentence for treason.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Nukulau_Island (474 words)

	Looking back at the Fiji coup six months on - Fiji Times Online
		REFLECTING on the statement made by the commander of the Republic of Fiji Military Forces, Commodore Josaia Voreqe Bainimarama, upon seizing power and ousting the multi-party government of Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase on December 5, 2006 one is bemused by some of the commanders rhetoric.
		This consisted of the Fiji Labour Party and a large majority of the Indians scarred by the events of May, 2000 and by sense of alienation from the SDL government because of some of is policies.
		Demographics and continuing emigration by other communities mean an ever increasing indigenous proportion of the population.
	www.fijitimes.com /story.aspx?id=64376 (3288 words)

	Fiji: Travel to Fiji: Plan your Trips and Journeys
		Fiji is a group of volcanic islands in the South Pacific, lying about 4,450 km (2,775 mi) southwest of Honolulu and 1,770 km (1,100 mi) north of New Zealand.
		Fiji's rainforests are unique in that they have no harmful animals or insects.
		Fiji is famous for the variety of activities available.
	goto-fiji.com (840 words)

	WHO/WPRO-Demographics, Gender and Poverty
		Fiji has the largest population of the South Pacific island countries.
		The estimated multiethnic population for 2003 was 832 446 and it is growing slowly due to a moderately low level of fertility and a high level of emigration.
		Of the adult population (all people over 15 years), the most disadvantaged group is Indo-Fijian female adults, of whom 14% in 1996 had no formal education, followed by Indo-Fijian male adults, of whom 8% had no formal education.
	www.wpro.who.int /countries/05fij (476 words)

	Fiji News - Breaking World Fiji News - The New York Times
		Fiji's fertile soil yields sugarcane, tropical fruits, taro, cotton, pineapples, bananas, wood, and coconuts.
		Fiji was declared a republic; it also was expelled (1987–97) from the Commonwealth.
		The leader of a coup in Fiji in May 2000, George Speight, was sentenced to death today after he pleaded guilty to treason in the Fiji high court.
	topics.nytimes.com /top/news/international/countriesandterritories/fiji/index.html (1773 words)

	Fiji \| Fiji Travel Guide: Honeymoon Destination Fiji
		The Fiji School of Medicine, which is now classed as a regional agency and a member of the Council of Regional Organisations in the Pacific, and the main campus of the University of the South Pacific are in Suva.
		Fiji became the 127th member of the United Nations on October 13, 1970, and participates actively in the organization.
		Fiji’s contributions to UN peacekeeping are unique for a nation of its size.
	goto-fiji.com /travel/honeymoon/fiji (6303 words)

	Top20Fiji.com - Your Top20 Guide to Fiji!
		Fiji (Fijian: Matanitu ko Viti; Hindustānī: फ़िजी, فِجی), officially the Republic of the Fiji Islands, is an island nation in the South Pacific Ocean east of Vanuatu, west of Tonga and south of Tuvalu.
		A military coup d'état led by Commodore Frank Bainimarama deposed the civilian government of Laisenia Qarase on 5 December 2006, with Bainimarama declaring that he had "reluctantly" assumed the functions of the Presidency in an interim capacity.
		The Fiji sevens team is the most successful rugby 7s team in the world.
	www.top20fiji.com (2448 words)

	Fiji - Wikinfo
		Free and peaceful elections in 1999 resulted in a government led by an Indo-Fijian, which was later deposed by a coup.
		The official language is English, but both ethnic groups speak their own languages, Fijian and Hindustani.
		This page was last modified 10:15, 22 May 2006.
	www.internet-encyclopedia.org /wiki.php?title=Fiji (1702 words)

	Agenda 21 - Fiji
		In the Fiji Poverty Study Report published in 1996 jointly by the Government and UNDP, the focus of the strategy for combating poverty is to improve the productive capacity of the people; improve access to social services; and build capacities at the local level.
		National priorities are to limit the rate of population growth so that it is compatible with sustained improvements in the standard of living, and to equip the population with a satisfactory range of skills for use in the workplace and society.
		The main thrust of the new policy is the provision of necessary infrastructure, concessions and support as well as administrative and legislative mechanisms for the provision of affordable housing to various income groups.
	www.un.org /esa/agenda21/natlinfo/countr/fiji/social.htm (1151 words)

	TradePort Country Profiles from World Trade Press
		Fiji includes 332 islands, of which approximately 110 are inhabited.
		The political turmoil in Fiji has had a severe impact with the economy shrinking by 2.8% in 2000 and growing by 3.7 percent in 2001.
		The Fiji Visitor's Bureau was pleased to see visitor arrivals to reach pre-coup levels during 2002.
	www.tradeport.org /countries/fiji/01grw.html (363 words)

	Fiji - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Municipal governments, with City and Town Councils presided over by Mayors, have been established in Suva, Lautoka, and nine other towns.
		The population of Fiji is divided almost equally between native Fijians, a people of mixed Polynesian and Melanesian ancestory (54.3%), and Indo-Fijians (38.1%), descendants of Indian contract laborers brought to the islands by the British in the 19th century.
		The Fiji Times - Fiji News, Sport and Weather from Fiji's leading newspaper (http://www.fijitimes.com)
	www.marylandheights.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Fiji (1863 words)

	Fiji Travel Guide: Honeymoon Destination Fiji
		Fiji has been famous for pottery since the Lapita people began trading their wares deep into the South Pacific thousands of years ago.
		Fiji enjoys a typical tropical climate, with a trade wind blowing across the islands to cool things down during most of the year.
		Fiji is a very nice place to go and visit although it has many island i suggest that you try a cruise to visit all the islands.
	goto-fiji.com /travel (1708 words)

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