| Capital
: Honiara
Land
Area : 28,896 sq km
Head
of Government : Prime Minister Derek Sikua (Since December 2007)
Population
: 595,613 (July 2009 est.)
Major
Languages : Melanesian pidgin in much of the country is lingua franca; English (official but spoken by only 1%-2% of the population); 120 indigenous languages
Major
Religion(s) : 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)
Date
of Joining : 1978
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