Local short name form

Official name

Area

Population

Capital

Currency

International telephone access code

ISO 3166 country codes

Car nationality plate code

Internet country code

GRC Country Code

   Note: This section last updated 12th June 2021

   1,234.45

(where . indicates the decimal separator and , the thousands separator)

   Note: This section last updated 12th June 2021

   dd/mm/yyyy

   14:32

The official language is English . 65 other languages are spoken. The most widely spoken of these are ’Are’are (10 800 speakers); Kwaio (10 600 speakers); Kwara’ae (21 000 speakers); Lau (10 300 speakers) and To’abaita (18 400 speakers).

Solomon Islands’ company types include:

   Companies limited by both shares and guarantee
   Companies limited by guarantee
   Companies limited by shares
   Unlimited company

   Comprehensive tables of these strings can be acquired – see http://www.grcdi.nl/addresses.htm 

   Note: This section last updated 3rd May 2021

Deliveries are made to post office boxes. Post office boxes may be a combination of letters and numbers. The name of the island is written on the last line of the address.

Though postal deliveries are only to mailing addresses, street addresses will be found for the use of couriers, visitors etc. As not all streets are named, these may often be descriptive and unstructured, but usually written in English. Examples:

Solomon Islands is implementing, from July 2017, the locational code What3Words (http://www.what3words.com) as its national address system. It remains to be seen how widely this will be used and supported. Plans for a postal code system announced in 2021 would suggest that uptake has not been good and that it will be replaced.

   A table containing information about the relevant position of elements within address blocks can be acquired 

This is written P.O. Box.

Solomon Islands - Postal code format graphic

   Note: This section last updated 3rd May 2021

Solomon Islands has no postal code system. Solomon Post announced plans for a postal code system in 2021.

Solomon Islands - Postal code format

Solomon Islands - Postal code specifics

Solomon Islands - Postal code regular expression

Solomon Islands - Postal code map

Postal code level of coverage

   Note: This section last updated 5th September 2014

Refer to Exonyms in Solomon Islands for full lists of place names in the Solomon Islands in other languages.

   Alternate place name forms/postal code tables can be acquired at http://www.grcdi.nl/settlements.htm 

   Other language place name data can be acquired at http://www.grcdi.nl/otherlanguageplace.htm 

Solomon Islands has 9 provinces and 1 capital territory (show in the list below with an asterisk):

    Central 
    Choiseul (Lauru) 
    Guadalcanal 
    Honiara  *
    Isabel 
    Makira 
    Malaita 
    Rennell/Bellona 
    Temotu 
    Western 

Administrative districts graphic

   Note: This section last updated 9th May 2016

Solomon Islands’ telephone numbers have no area code. All fixed-line subscriber numbers have a total length of 5 when called from abroad; mobile numbers have a length of 7. Mobile numbers commence 17, 730, 74-79, 84-89, 912-921, 923-932 or 94-99.