AREA ................................................
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28.450
kmq
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POPULATION ..................................
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523.617 in.
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DENSITY .........................................
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18,4 in/kmq
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CAPITAL ..........................................
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Honiara
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LANGUAGES ....................................
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Melanesian pidgin in much of the country is lingua franca; English is official but spoken by only 1%-2% of the population
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RELIGIONS ......................................
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Church of Melanesia 32.8%, Roman Catholic 19%, South Seas Evangelical 17%, Seventh-Day Adventist 11.2%, United Church 10.3%, Christian Fellowship Church 2.4%, other Christian 4.4%, other 2.4%, unspecified 0.3%, none 0.2% (1999 census)
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CURRENCY ......................................
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Solomon Islands dollar (SBD)
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GDP per CAPITA .............................
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1814 $ (2004)
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HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX ..
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0,418 (127th place)
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LOWEST POINT ...............................
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Pacific Ocean 0 m
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HIGHEST POINT ..............................
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Mount Makarakomburu 2447 m
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INDEPENDENCE ...............................
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7 July 1978 (from UK)
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INSTITUTIONAL FORM ...................
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Parliamentary Democracy in the Commonwealth context
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WEB DOMAIN ..................................
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.sb
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COUNTRY CODE ..............................
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+677
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