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Fiji

Location S Pacific Ocean , N of New Zealand
Latitude and longitude  18 00 S, 175 00 E
Sovereignty Independent
United Nations member? Yes
Political status notes Officially, "Republic of the Fiji Islands"
Population  836,000
Census notes est. July 2004
Land area in square kilometers 18,333
Capital  Suva

Fundamental legal document(s) online

Fiji Islands Constitution Amendment Act 1997, from the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute at the University of the South Pacific School of Law
Fiji Constitution Amendment Act 1997, as amended by Act No. 5 of 1998, from the Institut für öffentliches Recht, Bern, Switzerland
Fiji Constitution Amendment Act 1997 Revocation Decree 2000 (Interim Military Government Decree No. 1), from the University of the South Pacific, Pacific Law Materials, via the Internet Archive
Fundamental Rights and Freedoms Decree (Interim Military Government Decree No. 7 of 2000), from the University of the South Pacific, Pacific Law Materials, via the Internet Archive

Other legal documents online

Fiji Islands Law, a collection of statutes, laws, judicial decisions and other materials from the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute at the University of the South Pacific School of Law
Act for the Regulation of Fishing (1942) (PDF), from the Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide
Fisheries Act and Regulations (unofficial), from the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (PDF)

Sources and other useful websites

Bank of Hawaii, Economics Research Center, Fiji Economic Report (1998) (PDF)
Bank of Hawaii, Economics Research Center, An Update on Fiji (2000) (PDF)
Country profile: Fiji, from the BBC News
Fiji, Background Notes, from the U.S. Department of State (2003)
Fiji, globalEDGE Country Insight from Michigan State University
Fiji, from Radio Australia’s Charting the Pacific
Fiji, from Radio Australia’s Time to Talk
Fiji Girmit, links to articles, essays, and studies on Fiji from the point of view of the Indian minority
Fiji Islands, map and basic demographic and economic data from the South Pacific Island Web Atlas, provided by the GIS Unit of the University of the South Pacific
Fiji Islands Statistics Bureau
Fiji: The Warrior Archipelago, from John Fowler
Finding Fiji, from David Stanley’s South Pacific Organizer
Fishery Country Profile--Fiji, from the Food and Agriculture Organization
Government of Fiji
Independent States in the World, Office of the Geographer and Global Issues, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C.
Noa'ia 'e Mauri, a website for the people of Rotuma 
Republic of the Fiji Islands,  from the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Rod Ewins’ Fiji Page
Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Pacific Island Populations 2004 (Microsoft Excel spreadsheet 78K)
United Kingdom, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, Country Profile: Fiji
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, The World Factbook

Selected articles on law and political status

Land Tenure Conflict in Fiji, by Ratu Timoci Vesikula, working draft presented to the FAO/USP/RICS Foundation South Pacific Land Tenure Conflict Symposium at the University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji, April 10 -12, 2002 (PDF 140K)
Republic of Fiji, by Michael R. Ogden for the World Encyclopedia of Political Systems (3d ed. New York: Facts on File) 
The Status of Customary Law in Fiji After the Constitutional Amendment Act 1997, by Jennifer Corrin Care, from volume 4 of the Journal of South Pacific Law (2000)(slow-loading)

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