Map of Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands is located in Oceania. Its territory lies in the southern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 8.0° S, 159.0° E. It is an island nation and shares no land borders with any other country, so every approach to it is made by sea or by air. Within Oceania, a continent of 14 countries bordered by the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean and the Southern Ocean, Solomon Islands is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Solomon Islands is an island state with no land borders. The nearest countries are reached across open water rather than over a shared frontier.

Solomon Islands covers about 28,896 km² (11,157 sq mi). That makes it the 140th-largest country in the world by area and the 4th-largest in Oceania, larger by area than 10 of the continent’s 14 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 750,325, the 164th-largest in the world and the 5th-largest in Oceania, accounting for about 1.6% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Solomon Islands has an average population density of about 26 people per km². Among the 14 countries of Oceania it stands 5th by population and 4th by area.

The seat of government is Honiara, and the official currency is the Solomon Islands dollar (SBD, $), and the main official language is English. Traffic drives on the left, and the country observes the time zone UTC+11:00.

Solomon Islands carries the ISO country codes SB and SLB, dials on the international calling code +677 and uses the .sb internet domain.

Solomon Islands has no land neighbours. It is an island nation, so the countries nearest to it are reached across open water rather than over a shared border. Its position at 8.0° S, 159.0° E places it about 888 km from the equator, in the southern and eastern hemispheres, within the wider region of Oceania.

The interactive map above is centred on 8.0° S, 159.0° E and opens at zoom level 7, framing Solomon Islands within Oceania. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Honiara. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Solomon Islands lies about 888 km from the equator, in the southern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. As an island, its full extent is best seen by zooming out to take in the surrounding sea.

Solomon Islands keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+11:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +11:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Solomon Islands dollar (SBD, $).

The official language is English, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the left-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +677 and websites commonly use the .sb internet domain.

In short, Solomon Islands is an island nation in Oceania, with no land borders. Its capital is Honiara. Solomon Islands has a population of about 750,325 and covers around 28,896 km² (11,157 sq mi), ranking it 164th in the world by population and 140th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Solomon Islands.

The flag of Solomon Islands features a thin yellow diagonal band that extends from the lower hoist-side corner to the upper fly-side corner of the field. Above and beneath this band are a blue and green triangle respectively. Five white five-pointed stars arranged in an X shape are situated on the hoist side of the upper blue triangle.

The flag of Solomon Islands is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.