Countries
Key facts
- Capital
- Honiara
- Region
- Oceania, Melanesia
- Population
- 838,645 (2025)
- Area
- 28,450 km²
- Currency
- Solomon Islands dollar (SBD)
- Languages
- English, Tok Pisin
- Calling code
- +677
- Internet domain
- .sb
- ISO codes
- SB, SLB, 090
- Time zone
- UTC+11:00
- United Nations
- Member state
Land and position
The Solomon Islands covers about 28,450 square kilometres. By area it ranks 146th among the 250 countries and territories on this site. It is a little smaller than Albania and a little larger than Equatorial Guinea. It has no land border with any other country. Its centre lies at about 8° south, 159° east, in the southern hemisphere.
People
About 838,645 people live in the Solomon Islands (World Bank, 2025). That makes it the 164th most populous of the 246 places on this site with a figure. On average there are 29 people to each square kilometre. About 31 percent of people live in towns and cities (World Bank, 2025). A baby born there can expect to live about 71 years (World Bank, 2024). Languages listed for it: English, Tok Pisin. A person from the Solomon Islands is called Solomon Islander.
Money and economy
The currency is the Solomon Islands dollar (code SBD, symbol $). The World Bank puts the size of its economy (GDP) at about US$ 1.75 billion (2025), which is about US$ 2,086 for each person (2025).
Time
The Solomon Islands uses one time zone, UTC+11:00 (Pacific/Guadalcanal). Clocks stay the same all year: there is no daylight saving time.
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Offsets are for January 2026. See Time Zones for a converter.
Largest cities
| City | People |
|---|---|
| Honiara | 56,298 |
| Panatina | 32,712 |
| Tandai | 24,592 |
| Malango | 15,560 |
City figures are from GeoNames and count the city itself, not the wider urban area. They can be some years old, so use them to see the order of size.
More in Melanesia
Fiji, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu. See the whole region.
Figures were collected on 11 November 2026 from the World Bank, GeoNames and the open countries data set. See About and data sources. Borders and names follow those sources and do not express any view on disputed territory.