Solomon Islands

Facts

What the numbers say about Solomon Islands

• Russia, the largest place listed, is 624× the size of Solomon Islands.
• Solomon Islands ranks 144th of 239 by area but only 169th of 237 by population: it holds fewer people than its size suggests.
• At 22 people per km², Solomon Islands is the 145th most densely populated of the 185 places over 1,000 km²; the median is 72 per km².
• Solomon Islands lies at 9°S, close to the equator, where a standard web map (Web Mercator) is nearly true to size: it inflates area by only about 1.0×.
• Laid out flat, Solomon Islands's main territory stretches about 581 km north to south and 1,280 km east to west.
• Our measured 27,200 km² is 4.2% below Wikidata's official figure of 28,400 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently.

How Solomon Islands measures up

Solomon Islands holds 0.3% of the land area and 1.4% of the people of the 14 countries listed for Oceania. In Melanesia it is the 2nd largest of 4.

Where Solomon Islands sits

• Solomon Islands's centre lies at 8.9°S, 159.6°E, in the southern and eastern hemispheres, about 990 km from the equator.
• Its main territory spans 12°S to 7°S, about 630 km from its southern edge to its northern.

If Solomon Islands had other densities

• At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², Solomon Islands would have 34.1 million people. It has 611,000.
• At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², Solomon Islands would have 101,000 people. It has 611,000.
• At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 2.0 million.

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