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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 |
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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.
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