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% (1999 census)
Roman Catholic 76.2%, Protestant 7%, unknown 10.6%, other 6.2% (June 2002)
Languages
Melanesian pidgin in much of the country is lingua franca; English (official; but spoken by only 1%-2% of the population); 120 indigenous languages
German (official), Alemannic dialect
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Exchange Rate
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Location
Oceania, group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, east of Papua New Guinea
Central Europe, between Austria and Switzerland
Area
28,896 km sq
160 km sq
Coastline
5,313 km
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Climate
tropical monsoon; few extremes of temperature and weather
continental; cold, cloudy winters with frequent snow or rain; cool to moderately warm, cloudy, humid summers
