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Public holidays in Fiji reflect the country's cultural diversity. Each major religion in Fiji has a public holiday dedicated to it. Also Fiji's major cities and towns hold annual carnivals, commonly called festivals, which are usually named for something relevant to the city or town, such as the Sugar Festival in Lautoka, as Lautoka's largest and most historically important industry is sugar ...
The WG Friendship Plaza Suva is a high-rise mixed-use skyscraper under construction in Suva, Fiji, currently serving as the tallest building in the country, as well as the tallest building in Oceania outside Australia and New Zealand. The tower was topped out in 2021 and is 112 meters (367 ft) tall, being divided into 28 floors.
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Australian journalist Thomas John McMahon visited Fiji in 1921 and provided his own description of the Grand Pacific Hotel in his profile of the island nation that was published in The Sydney Mail: One thing Suva can boast of is the possession of the most palatial hotel in the Southern Hemisphere. It was here that the Prince of Wales was ...
Suva Central Business District in the 1950s Suva, Fiji, c. 1920. In 1868, when Suva was still a small village, the Bauan chieftain, Seru Epenisa Cakobau, granted 5,000 km 2 (1,900 sq mi) of land to the Australian-based Polynesia Company, in exchange for the company's promise to pay off debts owed to the United States.
Albert Park is located in Suva, the capital of Fiji. It was named after Prince Albert, the Consort of Queen Victoria of Great Britain, to whom the country was ceded in 1874. [citation needed] Albert Park can hold two rugby matches at one time. There is also a hockey pitch located in the middle of the ground with a grandstand and a cafeteria ...
The following table is a list of countries by number of public holidays excluding non-regular special holidays. Nepal and India have the highest number of public holidays in the world with 35 annually. Also, Nepal has 6 day working schedule in a week.
Rewa is a province of Fiji.With a land area of 272 square kilometers (the smallest of Fiji's provinces), it includes the capital city of Suva (but not most of Suva's suburbs) and is in two parts — one including part of Suva's hinterland to the west and a noncontiguous area to the east, separated from the rest of Rewa by Naitasiri Province.