Monday, April 18, 2011

BP3 QTR4

Country Name: Conventional - Fiji;  Official - Republic of the Fiji Islands
 

Nationality:  Noun - Fiji Islander;  Adjective - Fiji or Fijian.
 

Languages: Fiji has three official languages and they are English, Bau Fijian and Hindustani but English is the main language of communication in Fiji.
 

Flag Description:

Fiji's flag flew for the first time on Independence Day, October 10, 1970. It includes the red, white and blue Union Flag of Britain in the top left-hand corner and the shield from the Fiji Coat of Arms on a light blue background in the fly. The design for the national flag was selected as the result of a competition won jointly by Mr. Robi Wilcock and Mrs. Murray MacKenzie.
 

Background: Fiji was first settled about three and a half thousand years ago. The original inhabitants are now called "Lapita people" after a distinctive type of fine pottery they produced, remnants of which have been found in practically all the islands of the Pacific, east of New Guinea, though not in eastern Polynesia. Linguistic evidence suggests that they came from northern or central Vanuatu, or possibly the eastern Solomons.

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