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Honiara (/ ˌ h oʊ n i ˈ ɑːr ə /) is the capital and largest city of Solomon Islands, situated on the northwestern coast of Guadalcanal. As of 2021, it had a population of 92,344 people. The city is served by Honiara International Airport and the seaport of Point Cruz, and lies along the Kukum Highway.
Urban area provisional resident population, June 2024 [2] Adelaide Australia: 1,359,087 Significant Urban Area, June 2021 [1] Honolulu United States: 1,016,508 Urban Honolulu Metropolitan Statistical Area, 2020 estimate [3] Gold Coast Australia: 718,772 Significant Urban Area, June 2021 [1] Newcastle–Maitland Australia: 505,489
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 ...
Point Cruz is a peninsula [1] in the center of Honiara, on Guadalcanal Island. Honiara is the capital city of the Solomon Islands. Point Cruz is located on the Tandai Highway, [2] and is ¼ mile north of the Solomon Islands Parliament Building. Point Cruz is in the Honiara City Council ward of Cruz, [3] and is East of Town Ground and West of ...
This is a list of Oceanian countries and dependencies by population in Oceania, which includes Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia. Projections are from the United Nations [ 1 ] and official figures are from the Pacific Community [ 2 ] and other official sources.
East Honiara is a parliamentary constituency electing one representative to the National Parliament of Solomon Islands.With an electorate of 30,049 in 2006, it is by far the most heavily populated constituency in the country, being the only one (out of fifty) to consist in more than 20,000 voters.
Holy Cross Cathedral in Honiara. Catholic evangelisation of the Solomon Islands archipelago in the nineteenth century was mostly in the hands of the Marist Fathers. [1] [2] There are over 140,000 Catholics in Solomon Islands in 2022 (one-fifth of the total population). [3] In 2020 there were 89 priests and 120 nuns serving across 34 parishes. [4]
With a population of 7,177 (as of 2019), it is the third largest town in the country. [1] It is situated on Ghizo Island approximately 380 kilometres (236 miles) west-northwest of the capital, Honiara , and is just southwest of the larger island of Kolombangara .