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Solomon Islands

The Solomon Islands is a Melanesian archipelago of nearly a thousand islands east of Papua New Guinea. Independent from Britain since 1978, it saw fierce fighting on Guadalcanal in the Second World War and still relies on fishing, timber and farming.

Palms leaning over a rocky shoreline with forested hills along the coast beyond, Solomon Islands

A Solomon Islands shoreline

Photo: Alex DeCiccio, CC BY-SA 4.0

Blue for water, green for the land, yellow for sunshine. The five stars stood for the country's five original provinces. Adopted in 1977, before independence.

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