Fiji: land of tropical islands
In our last article we had discussed about costa rica(which was covered by water from 2 sides), now in this article we will discuss about the country which is covered by water from all the sides, we are going to discuss about the island country of fiji. Fiji is one of the 14 country of the oceania continent(yes, oceania. Mostly wrong misintepreted, oceania is continent, not the australia. Australia is one of the country in the oceania continent).
Fiji is a archipelago of around 332 islands(from which 110 uninhabitated) and 500 islets(small islands). Located in between vanuatu in the east and tonga in the west. Fiji is divided in 4 divisions. Viti levu and vanua lelu are the most populated islands of the country and do you know the tavenui island of fiji lies just right on the international date line on the anti-meridian longitude.
There is a part of fiji which is 440 km away from the fiji known as the conway reef. The formation of fijian islands goes back to around 150 million, fiji is the result of volcanic activities. In the year 1874, britishers brought indians from india in fiji to carry out the work of sugarcane productions and today the 35% of fijian population is indian and 27% of population is follow the hindu religion.
Physical geography
Let's discuss physical geography of fiji. Mount tomanivi(1324 m) is the highest point of fiji. Rewa and sigatoka are the major islands of fiji. Small reservoirs of rainwater is the main source of water for the fijian island.
Most attractive places of this island country are the mammuka islands chain which is famously known as the 'Honeymoon islands' and one more interesting thing, you know the movie of tom hanks in the jungle, "cast away" was also filmed in this country.
Talking about the farming activities, vanua levu island is fully covered in the coconut and sugarcane plantations and the island is fully covered with the black sand. If you are someone who loves adventure then going to the lao and moala division is a must visit, it is a very rarely visited division of the country is also known as "Hawaii of fiji".
At present the population of country is around 9 lakh with 64% of the country following christianism and 34% hinduism. Talking about the people 57% of people are fijian and 33% of them are indian 2% rotuman and 8% white islanders and chinese.
The indian population in the fiji are called "Findians"(indian fijians) and those findians speaks hindi which they call "Fiji hindi" and other than hindi they speak english, tamil, punjab and urdu is in mixture. English, hindi and fijians are their official languages.
Getting into their culture some of the famous work performed here are weaving, canoes, mulberry chats, weapons and seasea fan dance(done by the women), neki wesi, spear dance(done by men). Not to forgetm cannibalism was once practised by the fijian people, but now it is totally prohibited.
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