Statistics
- Location
- Oceania, island group in the South Pacific Ocean; Geographic coordinates:
- 18°00′S 179°00′E / 18°S 179°E / -18; 179
- Map references
- Oceania
- Area
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- Total: 18 274 km²
- Land: 18 274 km²
- Water: 0 km²
- Area - comparative
- Slightly smaller than New Jersey; slightly less than one third Nova Scotia's size; slightly smaller than Wales
- Land boundaries
- 0 km
- Coastline
- 1 129 km
- Maritime claims
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- Measured from claimed archipelagic baselines
- Continental shelf: 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation; rectilinear shelf claim added
- Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
- Territorial sea: Fiji comprises 12 nm
- Climate
- Tropical marine; only slight seasonal temperature variation
- Terrain
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- Mostly mountains of volcanic origin, beaches
- Elevation extremes
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- Lowest point: Pacific Ocean 0 m
- Highest point: Mount Tomanivi 1,324 m
- Natural resources
- Timber, fish, gold, copper, offshore oil potential, hydropower
- Land use
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- Arable land: 10.95%
- Permanent crops: 4.65%
- Other: 84.4% (2005)
- Irrigated land
- 30 km² (2003)
- Total renewable water resources
- 28.6 km3
- Natural hazards
- Cyclonic storms can occur from November to January
- Environment - current issues
- Deforestation; soil erosion
- Environment - international agreements
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- Party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Law of the Sea, Marine Life Conservation, Ozone Layer Protection, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands
- Signed, but not ratified: None of the selected agreements
- Geography - note
- Includes 844 islands and islets of which approximately 106 are inhabited
Read more about this topic: Geography Of Fiji
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