Population is about 669,823 people, the 167th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly one in 11,461 of everyone alive.
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Solomon Is.
Solomon Islands ยท Solomon Islands
Oceania
ยท Melanesia
0Population
28.9Kkmยฒ of land
$2.37KGDP / person
HoniaraCapital
- ISO codes
- SB ยท SLB
- Density
- 23 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- English
- Currency
- Solomon Islands dollar (SBD)
- Dial code
- +677
- Internet domain
- .sb
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 8.0300ยฐ S, 159.1700ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Solomon Islander
- UN region
- Melanesia
- Economy
- Least developed region
- Income group
- Lower middle income
- Total GDP
- $1.59B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- None
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By the numbers
How Solomon Is. stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
167th
of 242 ยท 0.01% of world population
Land area
143rd
of 242 ยท 0.02% of world land
GDP per person
182nd
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
187th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Solomon Is.
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Covers 28,896 kmยฒ, making it the 143rd largest country here - about 11.2 times the size of Luxembourg.
Population density is about 23 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Honiara, at 9.44ยฐ S, 159.95ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 76,328.
Has no land neighbours - it is an island nation, surrounded entirely by water.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Pacific/Guadalcanal.
The currency is the Solomon Islands dollar (SBD, symbol $).
The official language is English.
Dials on +677 and uses the .sb internet domain.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Pacific/Guadalcanal
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UTC+11:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
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Honiara
Guadalcanal
9.4380ยฐ S, 159.9498ยฐ E
76.33K