Fiji
/ˈfiːdʒɪ/- a country in the South Pacific consisting of a group of some 840 islands, of which about a hundred are inhabited; pop. 944,700 (est. 2009); languages, English (official), Fijian, Hindi; capital, Suva.斐济（南太平洋国家, 由840个岛屿组成, 其中约100个有人居住; 2009年估计人口944,700, 语言有英语［官方语］、斐济语和印地语三种; 首都苏瓦）。
First visited by Abel Tasman in 1643, the Fiji Islands became a British Crown Colony in 1874 and an independent Commonwealth state in 1970. In 1987, following a coup, Fiji became a republic and withdrew from the Commonwealth, rejoining in 1997.