HIST 1011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Royal Solomon Islands Police Force, Kirakira, Copra
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Queen elizabeth ii is the monarch, solomon islands are a sovereign state: gdp: $ 1. 958 billion, gdp per capita: ,400, agriculture and industry: cocoa, coconuts, palm kernels, rice, fruit; cattle, pigs; fish; timber. Fish, mining, timber: labor force: 202,500, exports: . 1 million. Partners: china 50. 8%, australia 17. 5: imports: million. Commodities: food, plant and equipment, manufactured goods, fuels, chemicals. Australia 25. 7%, china: name: solomon islands, capital city: honiara (64,609 pop. , population: 609,883 (2014 est. ) Ethnicity: melanesian 95. 3%, polynesian 3. 1%, micronesian 1. 2%, other. Language: melanesian pidgin (in much of the country is lingua franca), English (official but spoken by only 1%-2% of the population), 120 indigenous languages. Honiara (guadalcanal), auki (malaita), gizo (western province), buala (isabel), tulaghi (central province), kirakira (makira) Religion: protestant 73. 4% (church of melanesia 31. 9%, south sea. Evangelical 17. 1%, seventh day adventist 11. 7%, united church 10. 1%, christian. Fellowship church 2. 5%), roman catholic 19. 6%, other christian 2. 9%, other 1. 3%
