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Western Province Day in the Solomon Islands

Western Province Day in the Solomon Islands is held on December 7. This event in the first decade of the month December is annual.
Western Province is the largest of the nine provinces of Solomon Islands. The area is renowned for its beautiful tropical islands, excellent diving and snorkelling, coral reefs and WWII wrecks, ecotourism lodges, and head-hunting shrines. Each province in the Solomon Islands has its own Province Day. If a Province Day falls on a Sunday, the public holiday is on the following Monday.

Similar holidays and events, festivals and interesting facts

Easter Monday on April 21 (Påskedag in Norway);
Anzac Day on April 25 (Australia, New Zealand, Nauru, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Western Samoa. It commemorates the landing of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps - ANZAC - on the Gallipoli peninsula in 1915);
Temotu Province Festival in the Solomon Islands on June 8 (the most eastern of the provinces. Date of formation - 1981)