Fiji 🇫🇯

Quick facts

• Capital: Suva
• Continent: Oceania
• Population: 929,766
• Area: 18,272 km²
• Density: 50.9 people per km²
• Currency: FJD
• Languages: English, Fijian, Hindi
• ISO code: FJ

Where Fiji sits

Fiji 🇫🇯 is one of 14 countries in Oceania, with its capital at Suva. It covers 18,272 square kilometres — 152nd in the world — and is home to about 929,766 people, 160th globally.

The countries it shares a continent with include Australia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. If you are learning geography region by region — which works far better than alphabetically, because memory for places is spatial — those are the ones to learn alongside it.

How Fiji compares

Raw figures are hard to hold on their own, so it helps to anchor them. In population, Fiji sits closest to Comoros and Guyana. In land area, its nearest counterparts are Kuwait and Eswatini.

At 50.9 people per square kilometre it is close to the world average of 59.4. It ranks higher by area than by population, so it is more spacious than its population alone suggests.

English is an official language in 58 countries here, among them Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Bahamas and Barbados, and 53 others. The FJD is used by Fiji and no one else.

To see Fiji next to every other country, sort the country rankings by population, area or density; its currency and languages are listed alongside every other country's in world currencies and world languages.

How to remember Fiji

Suva is on Viti Levu, the biggest island. S for Suva, S for the South-east coast of Viti Levu. Among the Pacific flags with a Union Jack, Fiji's is the one that is light blue with a shield.

The flag of Fiji: light blue, with the Union Jack and a shield

🇫🇯 The flag is a light blue flag with the British Union Jack in the top-left corner and the Fijian shield on the right. The light blue stands for the Pacific Ocean. The shield shows a lion holding a cocoa pod, sugar cane, a coconut palm, bananas and a dove of peace.

Region and neighbours

Fiji is an island country in the South Pacific Ocean, in Melanesia, north of New Zealand. As an island country it has no land neighbours.

Three facts about Fiji

1. Fiji has more than 300 islands, and about a third of them are inhabited.
2. Most people live on the two largest islands, Viti Levu and Vanua Levu.
3. Fiji won its first Olympic gold medal in rugby sevens at the 2016 Rio Games.

Sources: Wikipedia: Fiji, Wikipedia: Flag of Fiji, Wikipedia: Suva, CIA World Factbook.

Quiz yourself on Fiji

• Oceania capitals quiz — match Fiji to Suva
• Oceania flags quiz — spot the Fiji flag among its neighbours
• Island nations quiz — Fiji is an island country

Quizzes that include Fiji

Three angles are worth covering for any country — where it is, what its flag looks like, and what its capital is. For Fiji those are:

• Oceania map quiz — place it on a blank map
• Oceania flags quiz — identify its flag among its neighbours
• Oceania capitals quiz — match it to Suva
• Fiji capital quiz — five quick questions starting with Fiji
• Daily Map Challenge — five countries to find on a blank world map, the same five for everyone each day

Doing all three for one continent before moving on is far more efficient than learning flags globally, then capitals globally, then the map.

Read more about Fiji

• Capital of Fiji: Suva — the capital in detail, with size and density rankings
• All 14 countries of Oceania

Nearby countries

• Australia 🇦🇺 — capital Canberra
• Kiribati 🇰🇮 — capital Tarawa
• Marshall Islands 🇲🇭 — capital Majuro
• Micronesia 🇫🇲 — capital Palikir
• Nauru 🇳🇷 — capital Yaren
• New Zealand 🇳🇿 — capital Wellington
• Palau 🇵🇼 — capital Ngerulmud
• Papua New Guinea 🇵🇬 — capital Port Moresby
• Samoa 🇼🇸 — capital Apia
• Solomon Islands 🇸🇧 — capital Honiara
• Tonga 🇹🇴 — capital Nukuʻalofa
• Tuvalu 🇹🇻 — capital Funafuti

Frequently asked questions

What are the colours of the Fiji flag?

The flag of Fiji is a light blue flag with the British Union Jack in the top-left corner and the Fijian shield on the right. The light blue stands for the Pacific Ocean. The shield shows a lion holding a cocoa pod, sugar cane, a coconut palm, bananas and a dove of peace.

Which countries border Fiji?

None. Fiji is an island country in the South Pacific Ocean, in Melanesia, north of New Zealand, so it has no land borders with other countries.

How can I remember the capital of Fiji?

Suva is on Viti Levu, the biggest island. S for Suva, S for the South-east coast of Viti Levu. Among the Pacific flags with a Union Jack, Fiji's is the one that is light blue with a shield.