title: North Solomons
text: # North Solomons
  
  North Solomons can refer to three overlapping sets of Melanesian islands in the Western Pacific:
  
  * North Solomon Islands refers to the former colony of the German Solomon Islands
  * North Solomons Province, a province of Papua New Guinea replaced by the Autonomous Region of Bougainville
  * Republic of the North Solomons in part of the above, which unilaterally declared its independence but was reabsorbed into Papua New Guinea
  