https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/fj.html
Used this site for years / several purposes
this specific link is to Fiji
Here are 2 little known facts about Fiji
It's a chain of 300 islands -- where a little over 100 are inhabited
Natives called it FICI -- which sounds a LOT like FECES -- so score one for Colonialism there with the name change
And military service is voluntary for those 18 and over
BUT MANDATORY FOR THOSE 55 AND OVER
Military service age and obligation:
You gotta wonder what THATS about
And unless it's a wild misprint -- we learn that there over over 900,000 people scattered among those islands
And a little over 600 in the work force
This site will also show you several island areas where drugs are running into the US and/or where "offshore financial services" are a significant source of revenue
some remote locations will surprise you with the resources they have and some import nearly everything and rely heavily on tourism or are subsidized by another, developed nation that sees to things
Lovely Vanuatu is a particular little gem of a travel destination .....my daughter was looking at "best island paradises for a vacation" ......so I pulled the file on them and we took a closer look
Most of the population doesn't have reliable access to drinking water
However they DO have the most active volcanoes on the planet -- some that have been in some stage of eruption for the better part of CENTURIES - cyclones sweep through in regular cycles and "minor earthquake activity" .....which DOES produce tsunamis
A solid 2/3rds of the "urban dwellers" have "improved sanitation access" -- the rest is just considered ,..........."unimproved"
Somehow about a 1/3rd of he population is obese (that stocky south pacific islander thing?)
there are like 15 political parties and 100 different languages spoken
their national anthem?
it's called :"Yumi, Yumi, Yumi"
Used this site for years / several purposes
this specific link is to Fiji
Here are 2 little known facts about Fiji
It's a chain of 300 islands -- where a little over 100 are inhabited
Natives called it FICI -- which sounds a LOT like FECES -- so score one for Colonialism there with the name change
And military service is voluntary for those 18 and over
BUT MANDATORY FOR THOSE 55 AND OVER
Military service age and obligation:
You gotta wonder what THATS about
And unless it's a wild misprint -- we learn that there over over 900,000 people scattered among those islands
And a little over 600 in the work force
This site will also show you several island areas where drugs are running into the US and/or where "offshore financial services" are a significant source of revenue
some remote locations will surprise you with the resources they have and some import nearly everything and rely heavily on tourism or are subsidized by another, developed nation that sees to things
Lovely Vanuatu is a particular little gem of a travel destination .....my daughter was looking at "best island paradises for a vacation" ......so I pulled the file on them and we took a closer look
Most of the population doesn't have reliable access to drinking water
However they DO have the most active volcanoes on the planet -- some that have been in some stage of eruption for the better part of CENTURIES - cyclones sweep through in regular cycles and "minor earthquake activity" .....which DOES produce tsunamis
A solid 2/3rds of the "urban dwellers" have "improved sanitation access" -- the rest is just considered ,..........."unimproved"
Somehow about a 1/3rd of he population is obese (that stocky south pacific islander thing?)
there are like 15 political parties and 100 different languages spoken
their national anthem?
it's called :"Yumi, Yumi, Yumi"
