Solomon Islands
The Solomon Islands is an island group in the western South Pacific Ocean, north-east of Australia. The archipelago is in the Melanesian subregion and bioregion of Oceania and forms the eastern boundary of the Solomon Sea.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Archipelago
- Description: archipelago in the South Pacific
- Also known as: “Islas de Salomón”, “Solomon Islands archipelago”, and “the Solomons”
Solomon Islands
- Categories: island group, locality, and landform
- Location: Papua New Guinea, Oceania
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Latitude
-8° or 8° southLongitude
159° eastElevation
231 metres (758 feet)Open location code
6R4X2222+22OpenStreetMap ID
node 305001702OpenStreetMap feature
place=archipelago
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In Other Languages
From Amis to Yue Chinese—“Solomon Islands” goes by many names.
- Amis: “Solomon Island”
- Arabic: “جزر سليمان”
- Armenian: “Սողոմոնյան կղզիներ”
- Asturian: “archipiélagu de les Islles Salomón”
- Asturian: “Islles Salomón”
- Belarusian: “Саламонавы астравы”
- Bulgarian: “Архипелаг Соломонови острови”
- Bulgarian: “Архипелага Соломонови острови”
- Bulgarian: “Соломонови острови”
- Bulgarian: “Соломоновите острови”
- Catalan: “Arxipèlag de Salomó”
- Catalan: “illes Salomó”
- Catalan: “Illes Salomó”
- Catalan: “Illes Solomon”
- Cebuano: “Solomon Islands (kapuloan sa Papua New Guinea)”
- Cebuano: “Solomon Islands”
- Chinese: “所罗门群岛”
- Chinese: “所羅門群島”
- Chinese: “索羅門群島 (群島)”
- Chinese: “索羅門群島”
- Czech: “Šalamounovy ostrovy”
- Czech: “Šalomounovy ostrovy”
- Dutch: “Salomonseilanden”
- Esperanto: “Salomonoj”
- Estonian: “Saalomoni saared”
- Finnish: “Salomonin saaristo”
- French: “Archipel des Salomon”
- French: “Archipel des Salomons”
- French: “îles Salomon”
- French: “Îles Salomon”
- Galician: “Arquipélago das illas Salomón”
- Georgian: “სოლომონის არქიპელაგი”
- German: “Salomon-Inseln”
- Guarani: “Ypaꞌũ Salomõnguéra”
- Hebrew: “איי שלמה (ארכיפלג)”
- Hebrew: “איי שלמה”
- Hungarian: “Salamon-szigetek”
- Indonesian: “Kepulauan Solomon”
- Irish: “Oileáin Sholaimh”
- Irish: “Oileáin Sholomón”
- Italian: “Arcipelago delle Isole Salomone”
- Italian: “isole Salomone”
- Japanese: “ソロモン諸島”
- Kazakh: “Соломон аралдары (архипелаг)”
- Kazakh: “Соломон аралдары”
- Latvian: “Zālamana salas”
- Lithuanian: “Saliamono salynas”
- Lower Sorbian: “Salomonske kupy”
- Marathi: “सॉलोमन द्वीपसमूह”
- Mingrelian: “სოლომონიშ არქიპელაგი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Salomonøyene - øygruppe”
- Persian: “جزایر سلیمان (مجمعالجزایر)”
- Persian: “جزایر سلیمان”
- Polish: “Archipelag Salomona”
- Polish: “Wyspy Salomona”
- Portuguese: “Arquipélago das Ilhas Salomão”
- Russian: “Соломоновы острова”
- Slovak: “Šalamúnove ostrovy”
- Slovak: “Šalamúnové ostrovy”
- Slovenian: “Salomonovi otoki”
- Spanish: “Archipielago de las islas Salomon”
- Spanish: “Archipielago de las islas Salomón”
- Spanish: “Archipiélago de las islas Salomon”
- Spanish: “Archipiélago de las islas Salomón”
- Spanish: “Islas Salomon”
- Spanish: “Islas Salomón”
- Swedish: “Salomonöarna”
- Swiss German: “Salomon-Insle”
- Tosk Albanian: “Salomon-Inseln”
- Turkish: “Solomon Takımadaları”
- Ukrainian: “Соломонові острови”
- Upper Sorbian: “Salomonske kupy”
- Urdu: “جزائر سلیمان”
- Uzbek: “Solomon orollari”
- Western Mari: “Соломон ошмаотывлӓ”
- Wu Chinese: “所罗门群岛 (群岛)”
- Wu Chinese: “所罗门群岛（群岛）”
- Wu Chinese: “所罗门群岛”
- Yue Chinese: “所羅門群島 (群島)”
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