Fiji country guide: sources and map licence
Prepared 25 October 2026

MAP DATA
Natural Earth 1:10m admin-1 states/provinces, snapshot:
https://github.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/blob/ca96624a56bd078437bca8184e78163e5039ad19/geojson/ne_10m_admin_1_states_provinces.geojson
Natural Earth is public domain:
https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/

The committed source extract contains only Fiji's five administrative features.
Run scripts/build-fiji-maps.py with Python 3 and Shapely 2 to reproduce the
three public GeoJSON files, atlas pack and place-name registry.

The region game covers Central, Eastern, Northern and Western divisions and
separately administered Rotuma. Fourteen provinces are a different level.
The island game selects ten individual islands from dissolved source coastlines;
it is not a complete inventory of Fiji's islands. Smaller offshore islands may
be omitted or generalised by the source. City and settlement points are curated
learning centres, not administrative boundaries or exact entrances.

Negative source longitudes are moved into the 0–360 world copy and adjacent
coastline parts dissolved, preserving islands across the 180-degree meridian.
The same camera includes Rotuma and the southern Lau islands. The international
date line is not the same thing as the 180-degree meridian. These learning maps
do not describe maritime ownership, navigation, current access or land tenure.

READING REFERENCES
Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Fiji country brief
https://www.dfat.gov.au/geo/fiji/fiji-country-brief
UNESCO: Levuka Historical Port Town (World Heritage inscription, 2013)
https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1399/
Laws of Fiji: Constitution of the Republic of Fiji (2013), including section
3(3), the equal status of English, iTaukei and Hindi
https://www.laws.gov.fj/
Parliament of the Republic of Fiji: institutions and parliamentary history
https://www.parliament.gov.fj/
Reserve Bank of Fiji: currency and economic reporting
https://www.rbf.gov.fj/
Fiji Bureau of Statistics: population and community information
https://www.statsfiji.gov.fj/
Tourism Fiji: islands, cultural practices, places and local food
https://www.fiji.travel/
NatureFiji–MareqetiViti: threatened species and habitat conservation
https://naturefiji.org/
Olympics: Fiji's rugby sevens achievements at Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020
https://olympics.com/en/olympic-games/rio-2016/results/rugby-sevens

Reading is shared by the country guide and facts course. Existing quiz IDs,
stored questions and learner progress are unchanged. The linked Words course
teaches Fijian; it does not claim to teach Fiji Hindi or Rotuman.

PHOTOGRAPHS
The guide reuses the existing local Fijian lesson and challenge photographs.
Every image carries its original Commons file link, creator and licence in
src/lib/oceanian-speak-heroes.json or src/lib/speak-challenge-heroes.json.
Images illustrate island landscapes, villages, Nadi, Levuka, the temple and
Sigatoka's dunes; captions identify the actual subject. They are not presented
as photographs of the food or ceremonies described in the reading.