!!!Solomon Islands: Geography ||Location|Oceania, group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, east of Papua New Guinea ||Geographic Coordinates|8 00 S, 159 00 E[{GoogleMap location='-8.0,159.0' zoom='4'}] ||Area |''total: ''28,896 sq km\\''land: ''27,986 sq km\\''water: ''910 sq km__\\''We are unable to verify those figures from Factbook, since the 6 main sources we used for checking give different figures as follows:\\[Factbook|https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook]: 28896\\ [DBpedia|http://dbpedia.org]: 28399\\ [Geoname|http://www.geonames.org]: 28450\\ [Infoplease|http://www.infoplease.com]: 0\\ [Britannica|http://www.britannica.com]: 28370\\ [Wolfram|http://www.wolframalpha.com]: 28896''__\\__Attempted Explanation__: Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org] ||Land boundaries|0 km ||Coastline|5,313 km ||Elevation Extremes|''lowest point: ''Pacific Ocean 0 m\\''highest point: ''Mount Popomanaseu 2,310 m ||Highest Mountains|__Due to difference in mountain rankings taken from two data sources we are listing here both lists :__\\ According to [Wolfram|http://www.wolframalpha.com]: Mount Popomanaseu 2335 m; Mount Rano 1700 m\\According to [Geonames|http://www.geonames.org]: Mount Popomanaseu 2335 m; Mount Makarakomburu 2310 m\\ \\__Attempted Explanation:__ Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org] ||Terrain|mostly rugged mountains with some low coral atolls ||Natural Hazards|typhoons, but rarely destructive; geologically active region with frequent earthquakes, tremors, and volcanic activity; tsunamis volcanism: Tinakula (elev. 851 m) has frequent eruption activity, while an eruption of Savo (elev. 485 m) could affect the capital Honiara on nearby Guadalcanal ||Natural Resource|fish, forests, gold, bauxite, phosphates, lead, zinc, nickel ||Land Use|''arable land: ''0.62%\\''permanent crops: ''2.25%\\''other: ''97.13% (2011) ||Climate|tropical monsoon; few extremes of temperature and weather ||Irrigated Land|NA ||Renewable Water Resources|44.7 cu km (2011) ||Environment_CurrentIssues|deforestation; soil erosion; many of the surrounding coral reefs are dead or dying ||Environment - international agreements|''party to: ''Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Environmental Modification, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Marine Life Conservation, Ozone Layer Protection, Whaling\\''signed, but not ratified: ''none of the selected agreements ||Large Cities| \\[Important Cities|Geography/Australia/Solomon_Islands/Geography/Important_Cities] ||Geography-note|strategic location on sea routes between the South Pacific Ocean, the Solomon Sea, and the Coral Sea; on 2 April 2007 an undersea earthquake measuring 8.1 on the Richter scale occurred 345 km WNW of the capital Honiara; the resulting tsunami devastated coastal areas of Western and Choiseul provinces with dozens of deaths and thousands dislocated; the provincial capital of Gizo was especially hard hit