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Honiara

Guadalcanal is one of the . Honiara contains a wealth of World War II sites: most of the hills in the Honiara area were the sites of fierce battles during World War II.
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Photo: Commander, U.S. 7th Fleet, Public domain.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Lawson Tama Stadium and National Library of Solomon Islands.

Stadium
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 3.0.
is a multi-purpose stadium in Honiara, Solomon Islands. It is used mostly for football matches. The stadium is unique as the stand is built into the hillside so there is no official capacity but no more than 20,000 would fit the surrounding grassland.

Library
The , sometimes Solomon Islands Public Library, was founded on June 26, 1974 and is located in Honiara, capital of the .

Hotel
Photo: Phenss, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Point Cruz and Rove.

Locality
Photo: Phenss, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a peninsula in the center of Honiara, on . Honiara is the capital city of the . is located on the Tandai Highway, and is ¼ mile north of the Solomon Islands Parliament Building.

Suburb
Photo: Phenss, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a suburb in Honiara, , located 2 kilometres west of the main center on the Tandai Highway. borders the Honiara City Council ward of Nggosi and Rove-Lengakiki. is East of Tanaghai and West of Town Ground.

Suburb
Photo: Phenss, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a suburb on the fringe of Honiara, and is located 3 kilometres west of the main center on the Tandai Highway. is in the Honiara City Council ward of Nggosi.

Honiara

Latitude
-9.4311° or 9° 25′ 52″ south
Longitude
159.9553° or 159° 57′ 19″ east
Population
54,600
Elevation
49 metres (161 feet)
IATA airport code
HIR
United Nations Location Code
SB HIR
Open location code
6R2XHX94+H4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 790807049
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2108502
Wiki­data ID
Q40921
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Honiara” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Honiara”
  • Amharic: “ሆኒያራ”
  • Arabic: “هونيارا”
  • Armenian: “Հոնիարա”
  • Asturian: “Ḥoniara”
  • Azerbaijani: “Honiara”
  • Balinese: “Honiara”
  • Basque: “Honiara”
  • Belarusian: “Ханіяра”
  • Bengali: “হোনিয়ারা”
  • Bosnian: “Honiara”
  • Breton: “Honiara”
  • Bulgarian: “Хониара”
  • Catalan: “Honiara”
  • Cebuano: “Honiara (ulohang dakbayan)”
  • Cebuano: “Honiara”
  • Chinese: “Honiara”
  • Chinese: “康尼艾華”
  • Chinese: “荷尼亞拉”
  • Chinese: “荷尼阿拉”
  • Chinese: “霍尼亚拉”
  • Chinese: “霍尼亞拉”
  • Croatian: “Honiara”
  • Czech: “Honiara”
  • Danish: “Honiara”
  • Dutch: “Honiara”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “هونيارا”
  • Esperanto: “Honiaro”
  • Estonian: “Honiara”
  • Estonian: “Pealinna ala”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Honiara”
  • Fijian: “Honiara”
  • Finnish: “Honiara”
  • French: “Honiara”
  • Galician: “Honiara”
  • Georgian: “ჰონიარა”
  • German: “Honiara”
  • Greek: “Ονιάρα”
  • Greek: “Χονιάρα”
  • Guarani: “Honiara”
  • Gujarati: “હોનિઆરા”
  • Gujarati: “હોનિયારા”
  • Haitian: “Onyara”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Honiara”
  • Hebrew: “הוניארה”
  • Hindi: “होनिअरा”
  • Hindi: “होनियारा”
  • Hungarian: “Honiara”
  • Icelandic: “Honíara”
  • Ido: “Honiara”
  • Indonesian: “Honiara”
  • Interlingua: “Honiara”
  • Irish: “Hóiniára”
  • Italian: “Honiara”
  • Japanese: “ホニアラ”
  • Kannada: “ಹೊನಿಯರ”
  • Kazakh: “Хониара”
  • Korean: “호니아라”
  • Latin: “Honiara”
  • Latvian: “Honiara”
  • Ligurian: “Honiara”
  • Lithuanian: “Honiara”
  • Lombard: “Honiara”
  • Luxembourgish: “Honiara”
  • Macedonian: “Хонијара”
  • Malagasy: “Honiara”
  • Malay: “Honiara”
  • Malayalam: “ഹോണിയറ”
  • Maltese: “Honiara”
  • Marathi: “होनियारा”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Honiara”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Honiara”
  • Minangkabau: “Honiara”
  • Mingrelian: “ჰონიარა”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “هونيارا”
  • Nauru: “Honiara”
  • Northern Frisian: “Honiara”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Honiara”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Honiara”
  • Norwegian: “Honiara”
  • Nyanja: “Honiara”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Honiara”
  • Panjabi: “ਹੋਨੀਆਰਾ”
  • Papiamento: “Honiara”
  • Persian: “هونیارا”
  • Piemontese: “Honiara”
  • Polish: “Honiara”
  • Portuguese: “Honiara”
  • Pushto: “هونیارا”
  • Romanian: “Honiara”
  • Russian: “Столица Соломоновых Островов”
  • Russian: “Хониара”
  • Sardinian: “Honiara”
  • Scots: “Honiara”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Honiara”
  • Serbian: “Honiara”
  • Serbian: “Хониара”
  • Serbian: “Хонијара”
  • Serbian: “Хоњара”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Honiara”
  • Shona: “Honiara”
  • Silesian: “Honiara”
  • Sindhi: “هونيارا”
  • Sinhala: “හොනිඅරා”
  • Sinhala: “හොනියාරා, සොලමන් දූපත්”
  • Sinhala: “හොනියාරා”
  • Slovak: “Honiara”
  • Slovenian: “Honiara”
  • Somali: “Honiara”
  • Spanish: “Honiara”
  • Swahili: “Honiara”
  • Swedish: “Honiara”
  • Tagalog: “Honiara”
  • Tahitian: “Honiara”
  • Tajik: “Хониара”
  • Tamil: “ஓனியாரா”
  • Tamil: “ஹோனியாரா”
  • Tatar: “Хониара”
  • Tatar: “Һониара”
  • Telugu: “హోనియారా”
  • Thai: “โฮนีอารา”
  • Tibetan: “ཧོ་ཉི་ཡ་ར་”
  • Tibetan: “ཧོ་ཉི་ཡ་ར།”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Honiala”
  • Turkish: “Honiara”
  • Ukrainian: “Хоніара”
  • Urdu: “ہونیارا”
  • Uzbek: “Xoniara”
  • Veps: “Honiar”
  • Vietnamese: “Honiara”
  • Volapük: “Honiara”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Honiara”
  • Welsh: “Honiara”
  • Western Armenian: “Հոնիարա”
  • Western Frisian: “Honiara”
  • Wu Chinese: “霍尼亞拉”
  • Yakut: “Хониара”
  • Yoruba: “Honiara”
  • Yue Chinese: “康尼艾華”
  • Zulu: “i-Honiara”
  • “Honiara”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Honiara”. Photo: Commander, U.S. 7th Fleet, Public domain.