Pacific Islands News Association

News Feature : USP Journalism Student Awards recognise excellence in journalism [18/10/2018 - Fiji]
News Feature : ‘Virginity testing’: a human rights violation, with no scientific basis - UN [18/10/2018 - Brazil]
Business News : Banana breakthrough for Samoa [18/10/2018 - Samoa]
News : Voter instruction booklets to be distributed first to the islands, 764,850 ballot papers to be printed [18/10/2018 - Fiji]
News : Fiji's Great Council of Chiefs restored in 100 days under SODELPA - Rabuka [18/10/2018 - Fiji]
News : New Caledonia separatists 'confident' as referendum nears [18/10/2018 - New Caledonia]
News : ADF supports APEC security in Port Moresby [18/10/2018 - Australia]
News : Temaru set to be cleared in Tahiti election probe [18/10/2018 - French Polynesia]
Sports News : Australia vs Tonga Test sold out [17/10/2018 - New Zealand]
News Feature : Pacific met services play key role in informing health, food and water security, tourism, energy and disaster risk reduction [17/10/2018 - Fiji]
Business News : Tonga supports proposal for Pacific Islands labour mobility secretariat [17/10/2018 - Tonga]
News : Solomon Islands' forests felled fast to feed China demand: Global Witness [17/10/2018 - Solomon Islands]
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Country profile - Hawaii

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The State of Hawaii is a state in the United States, located on an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of Australia. The state was admitted to the Union on August 21, 1959, making it the 50th state. Its capital is Honolulu on the island of Oahu.

This state encompasses nearly the entire volcanic Hawaiian Island chain, which is made up of hundreds of islands spread over 1,500 miles (2,400 km). At the southeastern end of the archipelago, the eight "main islands" are (from the northwest to southeast) Niʻihau, Kauaʻi, Oʻahu, Molokaʻi, Lānaʻi, Kahoʻolawe, Maui, and Hawaiʻi. The last is by far the largest, and is often called the "Big Island" or "Big Isle" to avoid confusion with the state as a whole. This archipelago is physiographically and ethnologically part of the Polynesian subregion of Oceania.

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