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Solomon Islands

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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CHRI Submission to CMAG :
September 2003

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