Geographical position: Solomon Islands is located in Oceania, group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, east of Papua New Guinea.
The country’s climate is tropical monsoon; few extremes of temperature and weather.
Languages: Melanesian pidgin in much of the country is lingua franca; English is official but spoken by only 1%-2% of the population.
Honiara is the capital of Solomon Islands.
Surface: 28,450 sq km
Population: 538,032
System of government: parliamentary democracy
Capital: Honiara
Religion: Anglican 45%, Roman Catholic 18%, United (Methodist/Presbyterian) 12%, Baptist 9%, Seventh-Day Adventist 7%, other Protestant 5%, indigenous beliefs 4%
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