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 | | Fiji (Fijian: Matanitu ko Viti; HindustÄnÄ«: फ़िà¤à¥, ÙÙØ¬Û), 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 is currently experiencing a military coup d'etat led by Commodore Josaia Voreqe (Frank) Bainimarama, who declared that he had "reluctantly" assumed the functions of the Presidency in an interim capacity on December 5, 2006. |
 | | 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 19th century. |
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