Spread Overseas
With political upheavals in Fiji beginning with the first military coup in 1987, large numbers of Indo-Fijians have since migrated overseas and at present there are significant communities of Indo-Fijian expatriates in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States. Smaller communities also reside on other Pacific islands and Britain. The last census in each of the countries where Fijian Hindi is spoken (counting Indo-Fijians who were born in Fiji) provides the following figures:
| Country | Number of Fiji born Indo-Fijians |
|---|---|
| Fiji | 313,798 |
| New Zealand | 27,882 |
| Australia | 27,542 |
| United States | 24,345 |
| Canada | 22,770 |
| Tonga | 310 |
Read more about this topic: Fiji Hindi
Famous quotes containing the word spread:
“Ah, but to play man number one,
To drive the dagger in his heart,
To lay his brain upon the board
And pick the acrid colors out,
To nail his thought across the door,
Its wings spread wide to rain and snow,
To strike his living hi and ho....”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)