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THE FACTS
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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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