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SOLOMON ISLANDS


Location: Oceania
Capital:
Honiara (43.600 inhab.)
Population:
444,000
Area:
28,370 km2
Coin:
1 Solomon Island dollar = 100 cents
Languages:
English, Pidgin-English
Religions:
Protestant, Roman Catholic
The Independence's Year:
1978

 

 

It is a state constituted from an archipelago of the Melanesia to east of the New Guinea, with an a total surface little greater than Sicily and with few more than 400 thousand inhabitants (density of around 15 abs / Kmq).
The capital Honiara is situated on the great island of Guadalcanal, famous for a bloody battle among Americans and Japanese during the second world war.
It primarily produce walnut-trees of coconut, from which it obtains copra, cocoa and lumber.

* Information and news of every kind (and photographic documentation) about Solomon Islands are to disposition of the partners of the Worldwide Geographic Academy: info@accademiageograficamondiale.com
 

 

Abitazione sull'Isola di Gizo Atolli a New Georgia All'Isola di Gizo Mare alle Salomone

Bialbero a Honiara Danze a Honiara Kolombangara Atolli

L'aeroporto dell'Isola di Gizo Laguna interna Danze delle Salomone Lungomare a Gizo

New Georgia Strade di Salomone Villaggio indigeno Sulla barriera corallina

Photographies to greater solution can be found to the page Oceania Gallery