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The capital city of Honiara is situated on Guadalcanal, the largest island. The other principal towns are Gizo, Auki, and Kirakira. Most Solomon Islanders are Christian, with the Anglican, Methodist, Roman Catholic, South Seas Evangelical, and Seventh-day Adventist faiths predominating. About 5% of the population maintain traditional beliefs.
In 1979 Honiara was still a small town in terms of population, especially for a capital city, with 18,346 people, of which 10,870 were men, and 7,476 were women. [14] In July 1978, Honiara became the new capital of the independent Solomon Islands. [7]
The literacy rate of the adult population amounted to 84.1% in 2015 (men 88.9%, women 79.23%). [ 203 ] The Human Rights Measurement Initiative (HRMI) [ 204 ] finds that the Solomon Islands is fulfilling only 70.1% of what it should be fulfilling for the right to education based on the country's level of income. [ 205 ]
Indo-Pakistani Sign Language: Related to Nepali Sign Language and possibly others in south Asia: India, Pakistan and Bangladesh: 6,300,000 (2019) Chinese Sign Language: Chinese Sign Language family: China: Legally recognized by China 4,000,000 (2021) Indonesian Sign Language: French Sign Language family (based on) Indonesia: 810,000 (2021) [1 ...
(a.k.a. Bali Sign Language, Benkala Sign Language) Laotian Sign Language (related to Vietnamese languages; may be more than one SL) Korean Sign Language (KSDSL) Japanese "한국수어 (or 한국수화)" / "Hanguk Soo-hwa" Korean standard sign language – manually coded spoken Korean. Macau Sign Language: Shanghai Sign Language "澳門手語 ...
Two other language families are represented on Bougainville, which forms part of the nation of Papua New Guinea but is geographically part of the archipelago. The status of the Reefs – Santa Cruz languages were once thought to be non-Austronesian, but further research found them to be divergent Austronesian languages. [ 4 ]
The figures for Guadalcanal Province do not include the separately-administered Capital Territory of Honiara; if included, that province would have had a total population of 109,382 in 1999, when it was the second largest province by population; by 2009, the combined census total for Guadalcanal and the Capital Territory would be 179,166, which ...
This is a list of islands in the world ordered by population, which includes all islands with more than 100,000 people. For comparison, continental landmasses are also shown, in italics. The population of the world's islands is over 730 million, approximately 9% of the world's total population.