People can often be heard referring to a particular small South Pacific island as Fiji. This is in fact a misnomer.
Fiji, historically, referred to a group of islands. The name literally translates as meaning 'empire' and the island know considered to be Fiji was the administrative capital of the empire, which at one point spread from Hawaii to the southern island of Japan, and maintained a powerful international trade presence.
Referring to this island as Fiji is roughly the same as calling Germany 'Prussia', after the empire it was once part of.
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