How many islands and islets make up the Fiji archipelago?

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The Fiji archipelago is composed of approximately 300 islands and 540 islets, which are scattered across roughly 1,000,000 square miles (3,000,000 square km) of the South Pacific Ocean. Of these 300 islands, about 100 are inhabited.1