Flag Of Fiji Islands
The fiji islands are 333 islands located in the southern pacific ocean that have beautiful beaches coral reefs and tropical rainforests.
Flag of fiji islands. Fiji ˈ f iː dʒ i fee jee. It consists of some 300 islands about 100 of which are inhabited and 540 islets. 1 300 mi 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.
Fiji country and archipelago in the south pacific ocean. The flag has been adopted after gaining independence in 1970 and it consists of a pale blue leaf and a miniature of union jack flag in the upper left field. Blue color of fiji flag means water because it is an iceland. The union flag also remains on the flag of hawaii a state of the usa since 1959.
Most of the population lives on the largest island viti levu where suva is the capital. Flag of fiji fiji emoji. The capital suva is on the southeast coast of the largest island viti levu. Chris wrote fiji got kicked out of the commonwealth as a result of the coup d etat in i think 1987 didn t change its flag which is a defaced pale blue british ensign apparently according to the flag bulletin a public design competition was held in fiji in 1990 for a new flag a committee narrowed down the entries to six designs.
The flags of five other independent countries see flags of australia cook islands new zealand niue and tuvalu articles retain the union flag in their national flags. At the first glance at the flag of fiji it is evident that this island nation used to be under british rule. Discussions about flag changes.