FIJI

Fiji is an archipelago nation in the southwestern Pacific Ocean consisting of more than 330 islands, of which roughly 110 are permanently inhabited. It was a British colony from 1874 until independence in 1970 and has a population shaped by two distinct major groups: indigenous Fijians and Indo-Fijians, the latter descending from laborers brought to the islands by the British to work sugar plantations in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a demographic history that has been a central factor in the country’s political development since independence.

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