What the records say
- When
- 1978
- Kind
- Territorial change
- Where
- Solomon Islands
- Coordinates
- 8.03° S, 159.17° E
- Process
- unknown
- Type
- Unknown process (often independences)
- Pop
- 196823
- Area km2
- 29785
- Losing
- United Kingdom
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Solomon Islands
Island country in Melanesia
Solomon Islands is an archipelagic country consisting of six major islands and over 1,000 smaller islands in Melanesia, Oceania, to the north-east of Australia. It is adjacent to Bougainville to the west, New Caledonia and Vanuatu to the south-east, Fiji, Tuvalu, and Wallis and Futuna to the east, and the Federated States of Micronesia and Nauru to the north.
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The source
- COW Territorial Change v6Correlates of War ProjectCorrelates of War: free use with citation