Ba

Ba is a province of Fiji, occupying the north-western sector of Viti Levu, Fiji's biggest island. It is considered one of fourteen provinces inside the state of Fiji, and one among 8 primarily based in Viti Levu. It is Fiji's maximum populous province, with a populace of 247,708 greater than 1 to 4 of the country's total on the 2017 census.

It covers a land place of 2,634 km2, the second one biggest of any province. Ba Province includes the towns and districts of Ba, Magodro, Nadi, Nawaka, Tavua, Vuda and Vitogo. The metropolis of Lautoka and the Yasawa Archipelago, off the western coast of Viti Levu, are also in Ba Province. Notable residents of Ba Province include Fiji's former president, Ratu Josefa Iloilo and the previous Chairman of the Great Council of Chiefs, Ratu Ovini Bokini. Former prime ministers Timoci Bavadra and Mahendra Chaudhry, both of whom had been deposed in coups and Ratu Tevita Momoedonu, were additionally from Ba Province. Vuda Point, in Ba Province, is the traditional landing of the canoes that added the Melanesian ancestors of the Fijian people to the islands. The nearby village of Viseisei is traditionally taken into consideration to be the oldest in Fiji.