Solomon Islands
The Solomon Islands is one of the 193 UN member states, in Melanesia. UN Tourism counted 29,000 international arrivals there in 2019, rarer than 98% of the 199 places with figures, so its stamp in Globestamp is printed in Mythic.
- International arrivals
- 29,000in 2019, UN Tourism
- Rank by visitors
- 194th of 199most visited first
- Stamp finish
- Mythicrarer than 98%
- Area
- 27,312 km² (10,545 sq mi)
- Population
- 670,000Natural Earth estimate
- Provinces
- 9in Globestamp’s regions layer
- Airports
- 20with scheduled flights
- World Heritage Sites
- 1on Globestamp’s list
Does the Solomon Islands count as a country?
Yes. The Solomon Islands is one of the 193 UN member states, so every common list counts it: the UN’s 193, Globestamp’s 250 and the Travelers’ Century Club’s 330.
| List | Counts the Solomon Islands? |
|---|---|
| UN member states (193) | Yes, a member |
| Globestamp’s countries and territories (250) | Yes |
| Travelers’ Century Club (330) | Yes, as Solomon Islands (Guadalcanal, New Georgia, Tulagi) |
| European Union | No |
| Schengen area | No |
The Solomon Islands stamp
Every country in Globestamp has its own stamp, drawn after a real entry stamp. Its finish shows how few travelers get there. The Solomon Islands’s is Mythic: a living finish taken from the place itself, the finish for places with fewer than 50,000 visitors a year. With 29,000 international arrivals in 2019, the Solomon Islands is rarer than 98% of the 199 places with figures. See every stamp on the stamp wall, or the rarest on the least-visited countries.
What counts as a visit to the Solomon Islands
The common rule among travelers is that you set foot there: an airport layover usually doesn’t count, and a port where you went ashore does. Globestamp counts the Solomon Islands when one of your photos was taken on its ground, or just off its coast; a photo taken from a plane never counts. Photos only at an airport make a transit stamp in lighter ink, counted only if you count layovers. Read more in how to count the countries you’ve visited.
Places in the Solomon Islands you can collect
Under the country itself, Globestamp keeps layers of places on your globe, and a photo taken at one ticks it. These are the ones it knows in the Solomon Islands, from 1 World Heritage Site to 1 volcano.
World Heritage Sites 1
East Rennell (1998). On the bucket list →
Volcanoes 1
Mount Popomanaseu. On the bucket list →
Largest cities
| City | People (urban area) |
|---|---|
| Honiara | 76,328 |
Airports
The Solomon Islands has 20 airports with scheduled flights, 1 of them large. Each is a dot on Globestamp’s airports layer, and every flight you log adds to how far you’ve flown (try the flight distance calculator).
9 provinces to fill in
Globestamp goes deeper than countries: its regions layer splits the Solomon Islands into 9 provinces (Natural Earth’s first-level divisions), and each one fills in when a photo was taken there.
All 9
Central · Guadalcanal · Honiara · Isabel · Makira-Ulawa · Malaita · Rennell and Bellona · Temotu · Western
Questions people ask
Is the Solomon Islands a country?
Yes. The Solomon Islands is one of the 193 UN member states, so every common list counts it: the UN’s 193, Globestamp’s 250 and the Travelers’ Century Club’s 330.
How many tourists visit the Solomon Islands a year?
UN Tourism (via the World Bank) counted 28,900 international arrivals in the Solomon Islands in 2019, the 194th most of the 199 places with figures. Countries count arrivals in different ways (some include day-trippers and cruise passengers), so treat it as a rough rank rather than an exact number of tourists.
How rare is a Solomon Islands stamp in Globestamp?
It is printed in Mythic, the finish for places with fewer than 50,000 visitors a year, rarer than 98% of the places with figures. The fewer travelers a place receives, the rarer its finish, from plain Ink to Mythic.
Does the Solomon Islands count for the Travelers’ Century Club?
Yes. The Travelers’ Century Club counts it as “Solomon Islands (Guadalcanal, New Georgia, Tulagi)”, one of its 330 destinations.
Places as rare as the Solomon Islands
Near the Solomon Islands
Sources
- Countries, cities and regions: Natural Earth 10m admin-0 (public domain); lists as of October 2026.
- Visitors: UN Tourism via the World Bank, ST.INT.ARVL (International tourism, number of arrivals), CC BY 4.0, data updated 2026-10-08. Each country's latest year before 2020. Countries count visitors differently; use as a rough rank.
- World Heritage Sites, parks, landmarks and the bucket-list places: Wikidata (CC0), as compiled in the app, October 2026.
- Airports: OurAirports (public domain), airports with scheduled service.
- Travelers’ Century Club: the club’s list of 330 destinations, as of January 2022.