| NAME: |
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| LOCATION: |
Oceania |
| GOVERNMENT: |
Parliamentary Democracy |
| OFFICIAL LANGUAGE: |
Melanesian pidgin in much of the country is lingua franca; English (official; but spoken by only 1%-2% of the population); 120 indigenous languages. |
| MAJOR RELIGION(S): |
Church of Melanesia 32.8%, Roman Catholic 19%, South Seas Evangelical 17%, Seventh-Day Adventist 11.2%, United Church 10.3%, Christian Fellowship Church 2.4%, other Christian 4.4%, other 2.4%, unspecified 0.3%, none 0.2%. |
| MAJOR ETHNIC GROUPS: |
Melanesian 94.5%, Polynesian 3%, Micronesian 1.2%, other 1.1%, unspecified 0.2%. |
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