Solomon Islands Country Info - Oceania

Description and Basic Information

Solomon Islands with its capital Honiara is located in Oceania (Oceania, group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean). It covers some 28,451 square kilometres (slightly smaller than Maryland) with 581,000 citizens. English and are the the languages commonly used by the people in Solomon Islands.

Solomon Islandsare a South Pacific archipelago east of Papua New Guinea. The Solomon Islands is a wide island nation and the distance between the westernmost and easternmost islands is about 1,500km (930 mi). The islands' ocean-equatorial climate is extremely humid throughout the year, with a mean temperature of 27 °C (80 °F) and few extremes of temperature or weather. The Solomon Islands archipelago is part of two distinct terrestrial ecoregions. Most of the islands are part of the Solomon Islands rain forests ecoregion. These forests have come under great pressure from forestry activities.

Pictures from Capital (Honiara)

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About Solomon Islands

The landscape features mostly rugged mountains with some low coral atolls. The average density of population is about 20 per km². The climate in Solomon Islands can be described as tropical monsoon with few extremes of temperature and weather. Potential threats by nature are typhoons, but rarely destructive or geologically active region with frequent earthquakes, tremors, and volcanic activity or tsunamis.

To reach someone in Solomon Islands dial +677 prior to a number. There are 8,200 installed telephones. And there are 30,000 registered mobile phones. The cellular networks operate on frequencies of 900 Mhz. Websites typically end with the top level domain ".sb". If you want to bring electric appliances (e.g. battery charger), keep in mind the local 220V - 50Hz. The following list are the 10 regions/states in Solomon Islands we know off.

Demographic Statistics

In the year 2010, the total Solomon Islander population grew at a rate of 2.32% (or by 14,111 citizens). With 2,275 deaths and 16,385 babies born, the natural increase rate lies at 2.31%. 0 persons more in total immigrated to the country than emmigrated.

An overview of age distribution in Solomon Islands: Each pair of bars represents a single age group (male/female). Each group is spanning 5 years. E.g. 0 to 5 years, 5 to 10 etc. and group "0 to 5" being at the left end and "100 +" at the right end of the chart.

Based on content from wikitravel.org. The original article can be found here based on the work of these users.
Geographic information is based on the data provided by geonames.org, CIA factsbook and Unesco.