What the records say
- When
- 1970
- Kind
- Territorial change
- Where
- Fiji
- Coordinates
- 17.83° S, 177.98° E
- Process
- unknown
- Type
- Unknown process (often independences)
- Pop
- 524457
- Area km2
- 18272
- Losing
- United Kingdom
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Fiji
Country in Oceania
Fiji, officially the Republic of Fiji, is an archipelagic country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about 1,100 nautical miles north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji consists of an archipelago of more than 330 islands—of which about 110 are permanently inhabited—and more than 500 islets, amounting to a total land area of about 18,300 square kilometres (7,100 sq mi).
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The source
- COW Territorial Change v6Correlates of War ProjectCorrelates of War: free use with citation