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When Fiji's rugby sevens team won the nation's first-ever Olympic gold in Rio 2016, the Reserve Bank of Fiji did something no other country has done: it printed a $7 banknote — a denomination found nowhere else on Earth — and made it real, spendable legal tender. Two million notes featuring captain Osea Kolinisau entered circulation in 2017, alongside a 50-cent coin honouring the team's coach. It is a perfect emblem of this Pacific republic, where the 180th meridian runs through a single island, money once bore a queen who was later swapped for parrots and fish, and a passport quietly opens 87 borders.

• Currency Fiji is the only country to issue a $7 banknote — a legal-tender denomination created in 2017 to celebrate its rugby sevens Olympic gold in Rio, with the team captain printed on the front.
• Passport The Fijian passport ranks 51st on the Henley Passport Index (2026), granting visa-free or visa-on-arrival entry to 87 countries and territories.
• Date line The 180th meridian — effectively the International Date Line — slices straight through Taveuni island, so you can stand with one foot in today and the other in tomorrow; Fiji and Russia are the only places where roads cross it.
• Money design Until 2012 Queen Elizabeth II appeared on Fiji's money; the redesigned notes and coins replaced her portrait with the islands' own flora and fauna, making Fiji one of the few Commonwealth realms to remove the monarch while keeping her as head of state.
• Citizenship Fiji banned dual nationality for decades and only legalised it in 2009 under the Citizenship of Fiji Act — meaning many Fijians who took another passport before then had to formally reclaim their birthright.
• History Fiji became a British colony on 10 October 1874 when Chief Cakobau and twelve other chiefs signed the Deed of Cession at Levuka — and gained independence exactly 96 years later, on 10 October 1970.
• Demographics Between 1879 and 1916 Britain shipped roughly 60,000 indentured labourers from India to Fiji; their descendants, the Indo-Fijians, were the country's majority from the 1950s to the late 1980s before coups triggered mass emigration.
• Currency origins Before the dollar, Fiji used a short-lived dollar (1867–1873), then the Fijian pound until 1969, when decimalisation converted one pound into two dollars.
• Geography Made up of more than 330 islands of which only about a third are permanently inhabited, Fiji's 'Garden Island' of Taveuni is dotted with some 150 volcanic cones.