Kingdom of Tonga Puleʻanga Fakatuʻi ʻo Tonga (Tongan)
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Motto: "Ko e ʻOtua mo Tonga ko hoku tofiʻa"
"God and Tonga are my Inheritance" |
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Anthem: Ko e fasi ʻo e tuʻi ʻo e ʻOtu Tonga
The Song of the King of the Tongan Islands |
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Capital and largest city |
Nukuʻalofa 21°08′S 175°12′W / 21.133°S 175.200°W |
Official languages | |
Ethnic groups (2016) |
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Religion | Free Wesleyan Church of Tonga |
Demonym | Tongan |
Government | Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy |
• Monarch
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Tupou VI |
ʻAkilisi Pōhiva | |
Lord Tu'ivakano | |
Legislature | Legislative Assembly |
Independence | |
• from British protection
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4 June 1970 |
Area | |
• Total
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748 km2 (289 sq mi) (175th) |
• Water (%)
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4.0 |
Population | |
• 2011 census
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103,036 |
• Density
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139/km2 (360.0/sq mi) (76tha) |
GDP (PPP) | 2011 estimate |
• Total
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$763 million |
• Per capita
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$7,344 |
GDP (nominal) | 2011 estimate |
• Total
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$439 million |
• Per capita
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$4,220 |
HDI (2014) |
0.717 high · 100th |
Currency | Paʻanga (TOP) |
Time zone | (UTC+13) |
• Summer (DST)
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(UTC+14) |
Drives on the | left |
Calling code | +676 |
ISO 3166 code | TO |
Internet TLD | .to |
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Coordinates: 20°S 175°W / 20°S 175°W
Tonga (/ˈtɒŋə/ or /ˈtɒŋɡə/; Tongan: [ˈtoŋa]Puleʻanga Fakatuʻi ʻo Tonga), officially the Kingdom of Tonga, is a Polynesian sovereign state and archipelago comprising 169 islands, of which 36 are inhabited. The total surface area is about 750 square kilometres (290 sq mi) scattered over 700,000 square kilometres (270,000 sq mi) of the southern Pacific Ocean. It has a population of 107,122 people, of whom 70% reside on the main island of Tongatapu.
Tonga stretches across approximately 800 kilometres (500 mi) in a north-south line. It is surrounded by Fiji and Wallis and Futuna (France) to the northwest, Samoa to the northeast, Niue to the east, Kermadec (part of New Zealand) to the southwest, and New Caledonia (France) and Vanuatu to the farther west.