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The Solomon Islands are a archipelago east of . They sit in the sea routes between the South Pacific Ocean, the Solomon Sea, and the Coral Sea.
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is one of the Solomon Islands. 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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The form an archipelago in , Solomon Islands. They lie approximately 250 miles to the southeast of the , just north of the archipelago of and are considered part of the Vanuatu rain forests ecoregion.

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is one of the nine provinces of Solomon Islands, comprising two inhabited raised coral atolls, and , or Mu Gava and Mu Giki respectively in Rennellese, as well as the uninhabited Indispensable Reef.

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is a town in the Solomon Islands and is the provincial capital of Malaita Province. As of 2021, it has a population of 7,882.

Solomon Islands

Latitude of center
-9.1333° or 9° 7′ 60″ south
Longitude of center
159.8113° or 159° 48′ 41″ east
Population
538,000
Area
28,450 km² (10,985 miles²)
Elevation
231 metres (758 feet)
Capital
Honiara
Currency
Dollar (SBD)
Phone code
.sb
Internet domain
677
Open­Street­Map ID
node 823750101
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
2103350
Wiki­data ID
Q685
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Solomon Islands” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Соломон идгьылбжьахақәа”
  • Achinese: “Pulo-pulo Solomon”
  • Afrikaans: “Salomonseilande”
  • Afrikaans: “Solomoneilande”
  • Akan: “Solomon Islands”
  • Albanian: “Ishujt Solomon”
  • Amharic: “ሰለሞን ደሴቶች”
  • Amharic: “ሰሎሞን ደሴት”
  • Amis: “Solomon”
  • Angika: “सोलोमन द्वीप”
  • Arabic: “جزر سليمان”
  • Aragonese: “Islas Salomón”
  • Armenian: “Սոլոմոնյան կղզիներ”
  • Armenian: “Սողոմոնյան կղզիներ”
  • Armenian: “Սողոմոնյան Կղզիներ”
  • Arpitan: “Iles Salomon”
  • Assamese: “চোলোমোন দ্বীপপুঞ্জ”
  • Asturian: “Islles Salomón”
  • Azerbaijani: “Solomon adaları”
  • Azerbaijani: “Solomon Adaları”
  • Bambara: “Salomo Gun”
  • Bashkir: “Соломон Утрауҙары”
  • Basque: “Salomon uharteak”
  • Basque: “Salomon Uharteak”
  • Belarusian: “Саламонавы астравы”
  • Belarusian: “Саламонавы Астравы”
  • Bengali: “সলোমন দ্বীপপুঞ্জ”
  • Betawi: “Pulo Suléman”
  • Bishnupriya: “সলোমন দ্বীপমালা”
  • Bislama: “Solomon Aelan”
  • Bosnian: “Solomonska Ostrva”
  • Breton: “Inizi Salomon”
  • Breton: “Inizi Solomon”
  • Breton: “Salomon”
  • Bulgarian: “Соломонови О-ви”
  • Bulgarian: “Соломонови острови”
  • Burmese: “ဆော်လမွန်ကျွန်းစု”
  • Burmese: “ဆော်လမွန်အိုင်းလန်းနိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “illes Salomó”
  • Catalan: “Illes Salomó”
  • Catalan: “Salomó”
  • Cebuano: “Kapupud-ang Solomon”
  • Central Bikol: “Islas Solomon”
  • Central Kurdish: “دوورگەکانی سلێمان”
  • Central Kurdish: “دوورگەکانی سولەیمان”
  • Chavacano: “Islas Solomon”
  • Chechen: “Соломонан гӀайренаш”
  • Chechen: “Сулейманан ГӀайренаш”
  • Cherokee: “ᏐᎶᎹᏂ ᏚᎦᏚᏛᎢ”
  • Cheyenne: “Solomon Islands”
  • Chinese: “Só͘-lô-bûn Kûn-tó”
  • Chinese: “所國”
  • Chinese: “所島”
  • Chinese: “所罗门群岛 / 索羅門群島”
  • Chinese: “所罗门群岛”
  • Chinese: “所羅門群島”
  • Chinese: “索羅門群島”
  • Chuvash: “Соломон Утравĕсем”
  • Cornish: “Ynysow Salamon”
  • Corsican: “Xalomonu”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Solomon Adaları”
  • Croatian: “Salamunovi Otoci”
  • Croatian: “Salomonski Otoci”
  • Croatian: “Solomonski Otoci”
  • Czech: “Šalamounovy ostrovy”
  • Czech: “Šalomounovy ostrovy”
  • Dagbani: “Solomon Islands”
  • Danish: “Salomonøerne”
  • Dhivehi: “ސޮލޮމޮން ޖަޒީރާ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Adey Solomani”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Adeyê Solomoni”
  • Dotyali: “सोलोमन आइल्याण्ड”
  • Dutch: “Salomonseilanden”
  • Dutch: “SB”
  • Dutch: “SLB”
  • Dutch: “Solomoneilanden”
  • Dzongkha: “སོ་ལོ་མོན་ གླིང་ཚོམ”
  • Eastern Mari: “Соломон Отро-влак”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جزر سولومون”
  • Esperanto: “Salomonoj”
  • Esperanto: “SB”
  • Estonian: “Saalomoni Saared”
  • Ewe: “Solomon ƒudomekpowo nutome”
  • Extremaduran: “Islas Salomon”
  • Extremaduran: “Islas Salomón”
  • Faroese: “Salomonoyggjar”
  • Faroese: “Sálomonoyggjarnar”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Solomon Islands”
  • Fijian: “Solomon Islands”
  • Fijian: “Yatu Solomoni”
  • Finnish: “Salomoninsaaret”
  • Finnish: “Salomonsaaret”
  • French: “Iles Salomon”
  • French: “îles Salomon”
  • French: “Îles Salomon”
  • French: “les Îles Salomon”
  • French: “Salomon”
  • French: “SB”
  • Fulah: “Duuɗe Solomon”
  • Gagauz: “Solomon Adaları”
  • Galician: “Illas Salomón”
  • Ganda: “Bizanga by’eSolomooni”
  • Georgian: “სოლომონის კუნძულები”
  • German: “Salomonen”
  • German: “Salomoninseln”
  • German: “Solomon-Inseln”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Solomon Islands”
  • Gilaki: “سۊلیمان ٚ جزيره‌ئن”
  • Goan Konkani: “सोलोमन द्वीपसमूह”
  • Greek: “Νησιά Σολομώντα”
  • Greek: “Νήσοι Σολομώντα”
  • Greek: “Νήσοι Σολομώντος”
  • Guarani: “Ypa’ũnguéra Salomõ”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Zil Salomon (Léta)”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Zil Salomon”
  • Gujarati: “સોલોમન આઇલેન્ડ”
  • Gujarati: “સોલોમન આઇલેન્ડ્સ”
  • Haitian: “Salomon”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Solomon Khiùn-tó”
  • Hausa: “Tsibiran Salaman”
  • Hausa: “Tsibiran Solomon”
  • Hebrew: “איי שלמה”
  • Hebrew: “שלמה, איי”
  • Hindi: “सोलोमन द्वीप”
  • Hindi: “सोलोमन द्वीपसमूह”
  • Hungarian: “Salamon-szigetek”
  • Icelandic: “Salómonseyjar”
  • Ido: “Insuli Salomon”
  • Ido: “Salomon Insuli”
  • Igbo: “Agwaetiti Solomon”
  • Iloko: “Is-isla ti Solomon”
  • Inari Sami: “Salomonsuolluuh”
  • Indonesian: “Kepulauan Solomon”
  • Interlingua: “Insulas Salomon”
  • Interlingua: “Insulas Solomon”
  • Irish: “Oileáin Sholaimh”
  • Irish: “Oileáin Sholamón”
  • Irish: “Oileáin Sholomón”
  • Italian: “Isole Salomone”
  • Italian: “Isole Solomon”
  • Italian: “Salomone, isole”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Salaman Ailanz”
  • Japanese: “ソロモン諸島”
  • Javanese: “Kapuloan Solomon”
  • Javanese: “Kapuloan Suleman”
  • Kalmyk: “Соломонин Арлс”
  • Kannada: “ಸಾಲೊಮನ್ ದ್ವೀಪಗಳು”
  • Kannada: “ಸೊಲೊಮನ್ ದ್ವೀಪಗಳು”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Solomon Atawları”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Соломонну айрымканлары”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Соломонну Айрымканлары”
  • Kashmiri: “سولامان جٔزیٖرٕ”
  • Kazakh: “Соломон аралдары”
  • Kazakh: “Сүлеймен аралдары”
  • Khmer: “កោះ​សូឡូម៉ុង”
  • Khmer: “កោះសូឡូម៉ុន”
  • Kikuyu: “Visiwa vya Solomon”
  • Kinaray-A: “Kasalomunan”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Ibirwa bya Solomoni”
  • Kirghiz: “Соломон аралдары”
  • Kirghiz: “Соломон Аралдары”
  • Kölsch: “Salomone”
  • Korean: “솔로몬 제도”
  • Korean: “솔로몬”
  • Kotava: “Solomona”
  • Kurdish: “Giravên Salomon”
  • Kurdish: “دوورگەکانی سلێمان”
  • Ladin: “Ijules Salomon”
  • Ladino: “Isolas Salamon”
  • Lao: “ຫມູ່ເກາະໂຊໂລມອນ”
  • Latin: “Insulae Salomonis”
  • Latvian: “Zālamana salas”
  • Latvian: “Zālamana Salas”
  • Ligurian: “Isoe Salomon”
  • Limburgan: “Salomonseilen”
  • Lingala: “Bisanga Solomɔ”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Isolas Solomon”
  • Literary Chinese: “所羅門群島”
  • Lithuanian: “Saliamono salos”
  • Lithuanian: “Saliamono Salos”
  • Livvi: “Solomonsuaret”
  • Lombard: “Isul Salomon”
  • Low German: “Salomonen”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Salomony”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Lutanda lua Solomu”
  • Luxembourgish: “Salomonen”
  • Macedonian: “Соломони”
  • Macedonian: “Соломонски острови”
  • Macedonian: “Соломонски Острови”
  • Malagasy: “Nosy Salomona”
  • Malagasy: “Nosy Solomona”
  • Malagasy: “Nosy Sôlômôna”
  • Malay: “Kepulauan Solomon”
  • Malayalam: “സോളമന്‍‍ ദ്വീപുകള്‍”
  • Malayalam: “സോളമൻ ദ്വീപുകൾ”
  • Maltese: “Gżejjer Solomon”
  • Maltese: “il-Gżejjer Solomon”
  • Manipuri: “ꯁꯣꯂꯣꯃꯣꯟ ꯏꯊꯠꯁꯤꯡ”
  • Manx: “Ellanyn Holomon”
  • Manx: “Ny h-Ellanyn Holomon”
  • Maori: “Ngā Motu Horomona”
  • Marathi: “सॉलोमन द्वीपसमूह”
  • Marathi: “सोलोमन बेटे”
  • Mazanderani: “سلیمون جزایر”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Solomon Gùng-dō̤”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Só͘-lô-bûn Kûn-tó”
  • Minangkabau: “Kapulauan Salomon”
  • Minangkabau: “Kapulauan Solomon”
  • Mingrelian: “სოლომონიშ კოკეფი”
  • Mongolian: “Соломоны арлууд”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “جزر صالومون”
  • Nauru: “Eben Solomon”
  • Nauru: “Toromen”
  • Navajo: “Sólomon Tó Bináhaazyínígíí”
  • Navajo: “Táłkááʼ Łizhinii Bikéyah”
  • Nepali: “सोलोमन टापुहरू”
  • Nepali: “सोलोमन द्विप”
  • Nepali: “सोलोमन द्वीप”
  • North Ndebele: “Solomon Islands”
  • Northern Frisian: “Salomoonen”
  • Northern Sami: “Salomon-sullot”
  • Northern Sami: “Salomonsullot”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Salomonøyene”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Salomonøyane”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Salomonøyene”
  • Norwegian: “Salomonøyene”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Illas Salamon”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Illas Salomon”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Salomon Īege”
  • Oriya: “ସୋଲୋମନ ଆୟରଲ୍ୟାଣ୍ଡ”
  • Oriya: “ସୋଲୋମନ ଦ୍ୱୀପପୁଞ୍ଜ”
  • Oriya: “ସୋଲୋମନ୍‌ ଦ୍ୱୀପପୁଞ୍ଜ”
  • Ossetian: “Соломоны сакъадæхтæ”
  • Pali: “सोलोमन-द्वीप”
  • Pampanga: “Solomon Islands”
  • Panjabi: “ਸੋਲੋਮਨ ਟਾਪੂ”
  • Panjabi: “ਸੋਲੋਮਾਨ ਟਾਪੂ”
  • Papiamento: “Isla Solomon”
  • Papiamento: “Islanan Solomon”
  • Persian: “جزایر سلیمان”
  • Persian: “جزیره های سالامون”
  • Piemontese: “Ìsole Salomon”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Solamon Ailen”
  • Polish: “Wyspy Salomona”
  • Portuguese: “Ilhas Salomão”
  • Pushto: “د سلېمان ټاپوان”
  • Pushto: “سليمان ټاپوګان”
  • Pushto: “سولومون ټاپوګان”
  • Quechua: “Islas Salomón”
  • Quechua: “Salumun wat’akuna”
  • Quechua: “Salumun watakuna”
  • Romanian: “Insulele Solomon”
  • Romansh: “Inslas Salomonas”
  • Rundi: “Amazinga ya Salumoni”
  • Russia Buriat: “Соломон аралууд”
  • Russia Buriat: “Соломоной аралнууд”
  • Russian: “Соломоновы Острова”
  • Russian: “Соломонские острова”
  • Russian: “Соломоны”
  • Samoan: “Le Motu o Solomona”
  • Samoan: “Solomon Islands”
  • Samogitian: “Saliamuona Salas”
  • Sango: “Zûâ Salomöon”
  • Sanskrit: “सोलोमन-द्वीप”
  • Sardinian: “Ìsulas Salomone”
  • Scots: “Solomon Islands”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Eileanan Sholaimh”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Na h-Eileanan Sholaimh”
  • Serbian: “Соломонова Острва”
  • Serbian: “Соломонска Острва”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Solomonski Otoci”
  • Shan: “မူႇၵုၼ် သေႃႇလေႃႇမၼ်ႇ”
  • Shona: “Solomon Islands”
  • Shona: “Zvitsuwa zvaSolomon”
  • Sicilian: “Ìsuli Salamuni”
  • Silesian: “Wyspy Salůmůna”
  • Sindhi: “جزيرا سليمان”
  • Sindhi: “سليمان ٻيٽ”
  • Sindhi: “سولومن آئلينڊز”
  • Sindhi: “سولومون ٻيٽَ”
  • Sinhala: “සොලමන් දුපත්”
  • Sinhala: “සොලමන් දූපත්”
  • Skolt Sami: “Salomoon-suõllu”
  • Slovak: “Šalamúnove ostrovy”
  • Slovenian: “Salomonovi otoki”
  • Slovenian: “Salomonovo otočje”
  • Somali: “Awdalka Solomon”
  • Somali: “Jasiiradaha Solomon”
  • Somali: “Jasiiradda Solomon”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سولئیمان آدالاری”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سولیمان آدالاری”
  • Spanish: “Islas Salomon”
  • Spanish: “Islas Salomón”
  • Spanish: “Islas Solomon”
  • Spanish: “Islas Solomón”
  • Spanish: “Salomón”
  • Sundanese: “Kapuloan Solomon”
  • Swahili: “Visiwa vya Solomon”
  • Swedish: “Salomonöarna”
  • Swedish: “Solomonöarna”
  • Swiss German: “D Salomone”
  • Tagalog: “Kapuluang Salomon”
  • Tagalog: “Kapuluang Solomon”
  • Tagalog: “Solomon Islands”
  • Tahitian: “Toromona”
  • Tajik: “Ҷазираҳои Соломон”
  • Tajik: “Ҷазоири Сулаймон”
  • Tamil: “சாலமன் தீவுகள்”
  • Tamil: “சொலமன் தீவுகள்”
  • Tatar: “Соломон утраулары”
  • Tatar: “Сөләйман утраулары”
  • Telugu: “సోలమన్ దీవులు”
  • Telugu: “సోలోమన్ దీవులు”
  • Thai: “หมู่เกาะโซโลมอน”
  • Tibetan: “སོ་ལོ་མོན་གླིང་ཕྲན་ཚོ་ཁག”
  • Tibetan: “སོ་ལོ་མོན། གླིང་ཕྲན་ཚོ་ཁག།”
  • Tigrinya: “ሰሎሞን ደሴት”
  • Tok Pisin: “Solomon Ailans”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “ʻOtu motu Solomone”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “ʻOtumotu Solomone”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Salomonen”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “جزر سليمان”
  • Turkish: “Solomon Adaları”
  • Turkmen: “Solomon adalary”
  • Turkmen: “Solomon Adalary”
  • Udmurt: “Соломон шормуӵъёс”
  • Uighur: “سولومون ئاراللىرى”
  • Uighur: “سولومون تاقىم ئاراللىرى”
  • Ukrainian: “Соломонові Острови”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Salomony”
  • Urdu: “جزائر سلیمان”
  • Urdu: “سولومن آئلینڈز”
  • Uzbek: “Solomon orollari”
  • Uzbek: “Solomon Orollari”
  • Venetian: “Ìzołe Sałomone”
  • Venetian: “Sałomon”
  • Veps: “Solomonan Sared”
  • Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Solomon”
  • Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Xô-lô-mông”
  • Volapük: “Solomonuäns”
  • Võro: “Saalomoni saarõq”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kapuropod-an Solomon”
  • Welsh: “Ynysoedd Solomon”
  • Western Armenian: “Սողոմոնեան Կղզիներ”
  • Western Frisian: “Salomonseilannen”
  • Western Mari: “Соломон ошмаотывлӓ”
  • Western Panjabi: “سولومن آئلینڈ”
  • Western Panjabi: “سولومن جزیرے”
  • Wolof: “Duni Salmoon”
  • Wolof: “Duni Solomon”
  • Wu Chinese: “所羅門群島”
  • Yakut: “Соломон арыылара”
  • Yiddish: “סאלאמאן אינזלען”
  • Yoruba: “Àwọn Erékùsù Sólómọ́nì”
  • Yoruba: “Etikun Solomoni”
  • Yue Chinese: “所羅門群島”
  • Zeeuws: “Salomonseilan’n”
  • Zhuang: “Solomon Ginzdauj”
  • Zulu: “i-Solomon Islands”
  • “ma Solomon”
  • “Saalomoni saarõq”
  • “Saliamuona Salas”
  • “Salomón Tlālhuāctli”

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