Town Ground, Honiara Town Ground, Honiara Town Ground is a suburb in Honiara, Solomon Islands, located in the main center on the Tandai Highway. Town Ground is in the Honiara City Council ward of Nggosi and Rove-Lengakiki. Town Ground is East of Rove and West of Point Cruz. In 2003 Iron Bottom Sound Hotel was the initial base for the first elements of the intervention force sent to restore order following the civil tensions. Prior to the 2006 ethnic riots, a political crisis was unfolding. The Prime Minister Snyder Rini, remained under police guard and the Opposition Leader Francis Billy Hilly and his
Capital city prime economic, cultural, or intellectual centres of a nation or an empire are sometimes referred to as primate cities. Examples are Athens, Bangkok, Brussels, Buenos Aires, Copenhagen, Cairo, London, Mexico City, Paris, Seoul and Tokyo. News media will often use the name of a capital city as an alternative name for the country of which it is the capital or of the government that is seated there, as a form of metonymy. For example, "relations between Washington and London" refer to "relations between the United States and the United Kingdom". The word "capital" derives from the Latin "caput" (genitive "capitis"),