Solomon Islands
(亦作the Solomons)
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- a country consisting of a group of islands in the SW Pacific, to the east of New Guinea; pop.595,600 (est. 2009); languages, English (official), Pidgin, local Austronesian and Papuan languages; capital, Honiara.所罗门群岛（西南太平洋岛国, 位于新几内亚以东; 2009年估计人口595,600; 语言有英语［官方语］、混杂语、当地澳斯特罗尼西亚语［属南岛语］和巴布亚语; 首都霍尼亚拉）。
- The islands were divided between Britain and Germany in the late 19th century; the southern islands became a British protectorate in 1893 while the north remained German until mandated to Australia in 1920. With the exception of the northern part of the chain (now part of Papua New Guinea), the Solomons became self-governing in 1976 and fully independent within the Commonwealth two years later.
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- a large archipelago in the SW Pacific comprising a double chain of islands, of which those in the north-west form part of Papua New Guinea, the rest constituting the country of the Solomon Islands所罗门群岛（太平洋西南部的大群岛, 由一条双岛链组成, 其西北部构成巴布亚新几内亚的一部分; 其余部分构成所罗门岛国）。
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