What is "suva"

Suva is the capital and the second most populated municipality of Fiji, after Nasinu. It is on the southeast coast of the island of Viti Levu, in the Rewa Province, Central Division.

Suva is Fiji's political and administrative capital. It is the largest and most cosmopolitan city in the southern Pacific Ocean and has become an important regional centre. Students from the Pacific region and a growing expatriate community make up a significant portion of the city's population. According to the Authority of Local Government Act, Suva is governed and administratively looked after by the Suva City Council.

In 1877, it was decided to make Suva the capital of Fiji, as the geography of former main European settlement at Levuka on the island of Ovalau proved too restrictive. The administration of the colony was moved from Levuka to Suva in 1882.

At the 2007 census, the city of Suva had a population of 85,691. Including independent suburbs, the population of the Greater Suva urban area was 172,399 at the 2007 census. Suva, along with the bordering cities of Lami, Nasinu, and Nausori have a total urban population of around 330,000, over a third of the nation's population. This urban complex (not including Lami) is known also as the Suva–Nausori corridor.

The Suva, headquartered in Lucerne, is a public sector insurer and leading provider of health care coverage for employees in case of accidents in Switzerland.

The name is the abbreviation of Schweizerische Unfallversicherungsanstalt ( German for Swiss National Accident Insurance Fund, in French Caisse nationale suisse d'assurance en cas d'accidents or CNA; in Italian Istituto nazionale svizzero di assicurazione contro gli infortuni).

It was founded 1912 and for a long time held a monopoly for compulsory coverage for employees in high risk professions.

Suva is the capital of Fiji.

Suva may also refer to:

• HMS Suva, ship
• Suva (insurer)
• Suva Planina, town in Serbia
• Suva Reka, town in Kosovo
• Suva River, Danube, a small tributary of the Danube in Romania
• Suva River, Crni Timok (Bogovina), a tributary of the Crni Timok River in Serbia near the village of Bogovina
• Suva River, Crni Timok (Metovnica), a tributary of the Crni Timok River in Serbia near the village of Metovnica