Honiara (Solomon Islands)

Guadalcanal Province

Last modified: 2009-11-13 by ian macdonald
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Honiara is the capital of the Solomon Islands and of Guadalcanal Province, although it is a separately administered town. The administrator is the Honiara City Council.

The name "Honiara" is actually a misnomer: the English colonialists found it hard to pronounce the original name of the area in the northern Guadalcanal languages: Nagoniara. Nagoniara means "in front of the wind."

The flag is a "seal on a bedsheet", completely white with the seal of the Honiara City Council in the center.

Jens Pattke, 4 October 2009