Solomon Islands
Solomon Islands is a country in Melanesia, with its capital at Honiara, and is home to roughly 819.2K people.
English is the official language; the currency in circulation is Solomon Islands dollar ($); people from here are called Solomon Islander.
- »The islands saw some of the most intense fighting of the Pacific war, at Guadalcanal.
Solomon Islands is an archipelago, and that is the whole story of its silhouette: 14 landmasses are big enough to see at map scale, the largest holding only 21% of the territory, and 21 separate pieces in all.
Solomon Islands shares no land border with anything, so every approach is by sea or air. The closest other territories on file are Vanuatu (956 km), Nauru (1,258 km) and Papua New Guinea (1,785 km), measured centre to centre.
Honiara became capital after the Second World War, built on the site of American military infrastructure left from the Guadalcanal campaign.
25,736 km² (9,937 sq mi), 145th largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of North Macedonia.
Population 819,198, 163rd of 198 on file. That averages 32 per km² (82 per sq mi).
Five white stars for the five original administrative districts, on blue for water, green for the land, with a gold diagonal for sunshine.