Key facts
Capital:Honiara
Location:Oceania, group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, east of Papua New Guinea
Currency:Solomon Islands dollars (SBD)
Area:28,896 sq km
Population:690,598 (July 2021 est.)
Languages:Melanesian pidgin (in much of the country is lingua franca), English (official but spoken by only 1%-2% of the population), 120 indigenous languages
Religion:Protestant 73.4% (Church of Melanesia 31.9%, South Sea Evangelical 17.1%, Seventh Day Adventist 11.7%, United Church 10.1%, Christian Fellowship Church 2.5%), Roman Catholic 19.6%, other Christian 2.9%, other 4%, unspecified 0.1% (2009 est.)
TimeZone:UTC+11
Tel Code:+677
