Fiji

Facts

What the numbers say about Fiji

• Russia, the largest place listed, is 897× the size of Fiji.
• At 49 people per km², Fiji is the 118th most densely populated of the 185 places over 1,000 km²; the median is 72 per km².
• Fiji lies at 17°S, close to the equator, where a standard web map (Web Mercator) is nearly true to size: it inflates area by only about 1.1×.
• Laid out flat, Fiji's main territory stretches about 1,030 km north to south and 749 km east to west.
• Our measured 18,900 km² is 3.6% above Wikidata's official figure of 18,300 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently.

How Fiji measures up

Fiji holds 0.2% of the land area and 2.1% of the people of the 14 countries listed for Oceania. In Melanesia it is the 3rd largest of 4.

Where Fiji sits

• Fiji's centre lies at 17.4°S, 178.5°E, in the southern and eastern hemispheres, about 1,940 km from the equator.
• Its main territory spans 22°S to 12°S, about 1,030 km from its southern edge to its northern.

If Fiji had other densities

• At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², Fiji would have 23.7 million people. It has 926,000.
• At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², Fiji would have 70,000 people. It has 926,000.
• At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 1.4 million.

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