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Fiji’s New Prime MinisterFormer military commander and Two-time coup leader Sitiveni Rabuka.

Fiji

• It is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean with its capital Suva
• It was a British colony for almost one hundred years from 1874.
• It gained independence in 1970.
• It is about twice the size of Cyprus or slightly smaller than the US state of New Jersey.
• It surrounds Koro Sea, north of Auckland, New Zealand.
• These islands are largely formed through volcanic action, sedimentary deposit, and formations of coral.

Features it holds

• The archipelago consists of a group of more than 330 islands, of which about one hundred are inhabited.
• The two major islands are Viti Levu and Vanua Levu.
• Highest point is an extinct volcano known as Mount Tomanivi (Toamiivi; 1,324 m) on Viti Levu.
• The archipelago enjoys a tropical marine climate with only slight seasonal temperature variations.
• The main ethnic groups in the Fiji include Fijian, Indian, European, and other Pacific Islanders.

Note– UNESCO’s world heritage site: Levuka Historical Port Town.