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title: "Solomon Islands — capital, area, population and currency"
description: "Solomon Islands: capital Honiara, area 28,896 km², population 838,645 (2025), currency Solomon Islands dollar. Languages, time zones and calling code."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country/solomon-islands/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Solomon Islands

**Solomon Islands: Capital Honiara**

28,896 km² · 838,645 people (2025) · Solomon Islands dollar

Nearly a thousand islands strung over 1,500 km. Kavachi, an undersea volcano in the group, erupts often enough that its crater has been found to hold sharks living in hot, acidic water. Rennell is the largest raised coral atoll in the world, and its Lake Tegano is the biggest lake in the insular Pacific.

## The facts

- **Capital:** Honiara
- **Area:** 28,896 km² — 11,157 sq mi
- **Population:** 838,645 (2025)
- **Density:** 29.0 people per km²
- **Currency:** Solomon Islands dollar (SBD, $)
- **Official language:** English
- **Time zone:** UTC+11:00
- **Calling code:** +677
- **Drives on the:** left
- **ISO codes:** SB · SLB
- **Continent:** Oceania

## How it compares

- **By area:** 141 of 200
- **By population:** 164 of 200

> Population is the only figure on this page that dates — it is a 2025 estimate and will drift. Area, capital, currency, languages, calling code and driving side change rarely or never.

## Countries of a similar size

| Country | Area (km²) | Population |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Lesotho | 30,355 | 2,363,325 |
| Armenia | 29,743 | 3,086,700 |
| Solomon Islands ← | 28,896 | 838,645 |
| Albania | 28,748 | 2,349,580 |
| Equatorial Guinea | 28,051 | 1,938,431 |

## Common questions

### What is the capital of Solomon Islands?

Honiara

### What currency does Solomon Islands use?

The Solomon Islands dollar (SBD).

### How big is Solomon Islands?

28,896 km², or 11,157 square miles — 141 of 200 by area.

### Which side of the road does Solomon Islands drive on?

The left.

## Related pages

- [Lesotho](https://atoneplace.net/country/lesotho/)
- [Armenia](https://atoneplace.net/country/armenia/)
- [Albania](https://atoneplace.net/country/albania/)
- [Equatorial Guinea](https://atoneplace.net/country/equatorial-guinea/)
- [Australia](https://atoneplace.net/country/australia/)
- [Papua New Guinea](https://atoneplace.net/country/papua-new-guinea/)
- [New Zealand](https://atoneplace.net/country/new-zealand/)
- [Fiji](https://atoneplace.net/country/fiji/)
- [Vanuatu](https://atoneplace.net/country/vanuatu/)
- [Samoa](https://atoneplace.net/country/samoa/)
- [Kiribati](https://atoneplace.net/country/kiribati/)
- [Micronesia](https://atoneplace.net/country/micronesia/)

## Sources

- The World Factbook — Central Intelligence Agency (https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/) [Public domain (US Government)]
- World Bank Open Data — The World Bank (https://data.worldbank.org/) [CC BY 4.0]