Located in the southern pacific ocean, solomon Islands is home to 6 large islands and more than 900 smaller islets attached to it, with an area of 28,896 square kilometers, making it the fourth largest country in Oceania, administratively divided into nine provinces; with a population of 715,000 in 2020, Melanesians make up 93% of the population, speaking 87 dialects. Solomon Islands is the size of Yecheng County in Kashgar Region, the population is 1.3 times the population of Yecheng County in Kashgar Region, from the perspective of area and population, Solomon Islands is equivalent to a county in the western part of the mainland, then its province is equivalent to the mainland townships.
(1) The name of the country is derived from the name of the king of ancient Israel
The solomon islands are named after King Solomon in the kingdom of ancient Israel, but it is 14,000 kilometers away from Israel and has nothing to do with the kingdom of ancient Israel or King Solomon in history. King Solomon, the greatest king in the history of the Jewish nation, built the famous Jewish temple and created the "Golden Medicine Cabinet" where the Oracle and the Sinai Code were stored; later, the palace and the temple were destroyed in the war, and the "Golden Medicine Cabinet" and "Solomon Treasure" disappeared together, becoming the largest unsolved case in archaeological history. In 1568, when the Spanish navigator Mendania de Nella arrived here, he saw that the indigenous people were wearing golden ornaments, thinking that they had found the gold treasure house of King Solomon, so he named the place solomon Islands. The science fiction film "Horror of the Congo" is the story of the search for Solomon's treasure.
(2) One of the three countries whose name is "archipelago"
Solomon Islands is also one of the three countries with the name "Archipelago", the other two being the Marshall Islands and the Cook Islands. Subsequent articles will cover two other "archipelago" countries.
(3) One of the 8 countries that use the five-star flag
A total of 8 of the 197 countries in the world use the five-star flag, of course, not necessarily the red five-star, but also the white five-star and blue five-star. The five stars in the five-star flag also represent different meanings from country to country, with the five stars of the Solomon Islands symbolizing the five regions that make up the island nation (i.e. east, west, central, Maleta and the outer island group). In addition to Solomon Islands and China, can you name the other 6 countries?
(4) The exclusive economic zone is 55 times its land
The Solomon Islands exclusive economic zone covers an area of 1.6 million square kilometers, which is 55 times its land area and ranks 21st in the world, similar in size to the exclusive economic zones of the Philippines and South Africa, but the Solomon Islands are much smaller than the Philippines and South Africa.
(5) The head of state shall be the Queen of England
Solomon Islands is a member of the 15 Commonwealth Kingdoms and one of the 54 Commonwealth members. The Solomon Islands have a constitutional monarchy, with the Queen of England as the titular head of state and the Queen's title in the Solomon Islands as "Elizabeth II, by the grace of God, Queen of the Solomon Islands and its territories and territories, head of the Commonwealth". The Parliament of the Solomon Islands is unicameral; the Prime Minister is the head of Government, elected by Parliament from among the members.
(6) The place where the Battle of Guadalcanal took place
The Battle of Guadalcanal, a turning point in the Pacific Theater of World War II, took place on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. The Battle of Guadalcanal was another defeat for Japan after the Battle of Midway, which led japan to completely turn to defense in the Pacific Theater until its unconditional surrender in August 1945. On the site of the Battle of Guadalcanal, the United States and Japan each built a Guadalcanal War Memorial, which has now become a famous tourist attraction in the Solomon Islands.
(7) The most rudimentary capital
Honiara is the most rudimentary capital in the world, with no high-rise buildings, no large shopping malls, not even as good as the eighteenth line of the mainland, at best equivalent to the townships in remote areas of the mainland. The Chinese-aided Solomon Islands 2023 Pacific Games Stadium will be the most luxurious building in the Solomon Islands.
(8) Polygamy, raising pigs to marry wives
In Honiara, the capital of the Solomon Islands, every household raises pigs, but it is not "if you want to be rich, plant trees first, have fewer children and raise more pigs." "The Solomon Islands pig breeding is used to marry wives, and here wives do not need a house, no car, no bride price of hundreds of thousands, only a pig. After the wife married back, she continued to raise pigs and prepare for her husband to marry the next woman. There is a tradition that the more wives there are, the more status a man has, so many Solomon men are keen to marry.
(9) Low level of human development
The Solomon Islands have a backward economy, with agricultural output exceeding half of GDP and the majority of the population engaged in agriculture. The total GDP in 2020 is 1.55 billion US dollars, which is not yet at the level of the top 100 counties in the mainland; the per capita GDP is only 2258 US dollars, which is about one-fifth of the mainland's per capita GDP. Education and health care in the Solomon Islands are also relatively settled, with one-third of the population living below the poverty line, half of the population still illiterate, and a quarter of all new babies dying each year. In the United Nations Human Development Report 2019, solomon islands rank 151st out of 189 countries in the Human Development Index, which is a "low level of human development".
(10) Pristine diving paradise
It is precisely because of its remote location and underdeveloped industry that the Solomon Islands environment has not been damaged, so some of the most pristine dive sites in the world have been preserved. Solomon Islands was named the sixth best tourist country of 2013 by Lonely Planet.
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