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Nuku’alofa

Nukuʻalofa is the capital and largest city of . It is located on the north coast of the island of , in the country's southernmost island group.
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  • Type: City with 24,500 residents
  • Description: capital city of Tonga
  • Also known as: “Niukalofa”, “Nukalofa”, “Nuku‘aloia”, and “Nukuʻalofa”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Royal Palace and Basilica of St. Anthony of Padua.

Photo: Uhooep, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The of the Kingdom of is located in the northwest of the capital, Nukuʻalofa, close to the Pacific Ocean. The wooden Palace, which was built in 1867, is the official residence of the King of Tonga.

Church
The or simply Church of St. Anthony of Padua, is a Catholic church in the Taufa'ahau road in the town of Nukualofa, the capital of the Kingdom of Tonga in the Pacific Ocean.

Church
Photo: Tauʻolunga, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a Christian Protestant denomination founded in, and primarily active in, . It is headquartered in the capital Nukuʻalofa. It was established in 1929 by those members who did not agree to the 1924 unification of the Wesleyan mission and the Free church into the Free Wesleyan .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Nukuleka and Holonga.

Village
is a small fishing village on the north-east coast of the island of , Kingdom of . In January 2008, archaeologist David V. Burley claimed that it was the "". is situated 8 km east of Nuku’alofa.

Village
is a small village in the eastern district of in the kingdom of . It lies between the villages of and ʻAlakifonua. It had a population of 488 in 2016. is situated 9 km southeast of Nuku’alofa.

Village
is a small village in the eastern district of in the kingdom of . It is located in the fork of the road junction, where the main road to Nukuʻalofa splits into the road to Muʻa and beyond and the road to the airport near Fuaʻamotu. is situated 9 km southeast of Nuku’alofa.

Nuku’alofa

Latitude
-21.13434° or 21° 8′ 4″ south
Longitude
-175.20181° or 175° 12′ 7″ west
Population
24,500
Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)
IATA airport code
TBU
United Nations Location Code
TO TBU
Open location code
52C6VQ8X+77
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1082208696
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4032402
Wiki­data ID
Q38834
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Nuku’alofa” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Nukuʻalofa”
  • Afrikaans: “Nuku’alofa”
  • Afrikaans: “Nukualofa”
  • Afrikaans: “Nukuʻalofa”
  • Albanian: “Nuku’alofa”
  • Albanian: “Nukualofa”
  • Amharic: “Nuku’alofa”
  • Amharic: “ኑኩአሎፋ”
  • Arabic: “نوكو ألوفا”
  • Arabic: “نوكو الفاو”
  • Armenian: “Նուկուալոֆա”
  • Asturian: “Nuku’alofa”
  • Asturian: “Nuku’Alofa”
  • Azerbaijani: “Nukualofa”
  • Balinese: “Nukuʻalofa”
  • Bashkir: “Нукуалофа”
  • Basque: “Nuku’alofa”
  • Basque: “Nukualofa”
  • Batak Toba: “Nuku’alofa”
  • Belarusian: “Нукуалофа”
  • Belarusian: “Сталіца Тонга”
  • Bengali: “নুকু‘আলোফা”
  • Bengali: “নুকু’আলোফা”
  • Bosnian: “Nukuʻalofa”
  • Breton: “Nukuʻalofa”
  • Bulgarian: “Нуку’алофа”
  • Bulgarian: “Нукуалофа”
  • Catalan: “Nuku’alofa”
  • Catalan: “Nukuʻalofa”
  • Cebuano: “Nuku‘alofa”
  • Chinese: “Nuku’alofa”
  • Chinese: “努库阿洛法/努庫阿洛法”
  • Chinese: “努库阿洛法”
  • Chinese: “努庫阿洛法”
  • Chinese: “努庫阿洛發”
  • Chinese: “努瓜婁發”
  • Chinese: “努瓜娄发”
  • Chinese: “奴瓜婁發”
  • Croatian: “Nuku’alofa”
  • Czech: “Nuku’alofa”
  • Danish: “Nuku’alofa”
  • Danish: “Nukualofa”
  • Dutch: “Nuku’alofa”
  • Dutch: “Nukuʻalofa”
  • Esperanto: “Nukualofo”
  • Estonian: “Nuku‘alofa”
  • Estonian: “Nukualofa”
  • Estonian: “Nukuʻalofa”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Nuku’alofa”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Nukualofa”
  • Finnish: “Nuku’alofa”
  • Finnish: “Nukualofa”
  • Finnish: “Nukuʻalofa”
  • French: “Nuku’alofa”
  • French: “Nukualofa”
  • French: “Nukuʻalofa”
  • Galician: “Nukuʻalofa”
  • Georgian: “ნუკუალოფა”
  • German: “Nuku’alofa”
  • German: “Nukualofa”
  • German: “Nukuʻalofa”
  • Greek: “Νουκουαλόφα”
  • Gujarati: “નુકુઅલોફા”
  • Haitian: “Noukou’alofa”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Nuku’alofa”
  • Hebrew: “נוקואלופה”
  • Hindi: “नुकुअलोफ़ा”
  • Hindi: “नुकू आलोफ़ा”
  • Hungarian: “Nuku’alofa”
  • Hungarian: “Nukuʻalofa”
  • Icelandic: “Nuku’alofa”
  • Icelandic: “Nukuʻalofa”
  • Ido: “Nuku’alofa”
  • Inari Sami: “Nuku’alofa”
  • Inari Sami: “Nukualofa”
  • Inari Sami: “Nukuʻalofa”
  • Indonesian: “Nuku’alofa”
  • Indonesian: “Nukualofa”
  • Indonesian: “Nukuʻalofa”
  • Interlingue: “Nukuʻalofa”
  • Irish: “Nuku’alofa”
  • Italian: “Nuku’alofa”
  • Italian: “Nukuʻalofa”
  • Japanese: “ヌクアロファ”
  • Kannada: “ನುಕುಅಲೋಫಾ”
  • Kazakh: “Нукуалофа қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Нукуалофа”
  • Kirghiz: “Нукуалофа”
  • Komering: “Nukuʻalofa”
  • Korean: “누쿠알로파”
  • Korean: “누크알로파”
  • Kotava: “Nuku’alofa”
  • Kurdish: “Nukuelofa”
  • Lao: “ນູກູອາໂລຟາ”
  • Latin: “Nucualofa”
  • Latin: “Nukualofa”
  • Latin: “Nukuʻalofa”
  • Latvian: “Nuku’alofa”
  • Latvian: “Nukualofa”
  • Latvian: “Nukuʻalofa”
  • Lithuanian: “Nukualofa”
  • Lombard: “Nuku’alofa”
  • Luxembourgish: “Nuku’alofa”
  • Macedonian: “Нукуалофа”
  • Malay: “Nukuʻalofa”
  • Malayalam: “നുക്കുവാലോഫ”
  • Maori: “Nukuaroha”
  • Marathi: “नुकु-अलोफा”
  • Mazanderani: “نوکوآلوفا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Nuku’alofa”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Nuku’alofa”
  • Minangkabau: “Nukuʻalofa”
  • Mingrelian: “ნუკუალოფა”
  • Mongolian: “Нукуалофа”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “نوكو ألوفا”
  • Northern Sami: “Nuku’alofa”
  • Northern Sami: “Nukuʻalofa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nuku’alofa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nukualofa”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nuku’alofa”
  • Norwegian: “Nuku’alofa”
  • Norwegian: “Nukuʻalofa”
  • Nyanja: “Nuku’alofa”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Nuku’alofa”
  • Ossetian: “Нукуалофæ”
  • Panjabi: “ਨੁਕੂ ਅਲੋਫ਼ਾ”
  • Persian: “نوکوآلوفا”
  • Persian: “نوکوالوفا”
  • Piemontese: “Nuku’alofa”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Nuku’alofa”
  • Polish: “Nuku’alofa”
  • Polish: “Nukualofa”
  • Polish: “Nukuʻalofa”
  • Portuguese: “Nucu’alofa”
  • Portuguese: “Nucualofa”
  • Portuguese: “Nuku’alofa”
  • Portuguese: “Nukuʻalofa”
  • Pushto: “نوکوالوفا”
  • Romanian: “Nuku’alofa”
  • Russian: “Нуку Алофа”
  • Russian: “Нуку-алофа”
  • Russian: “Нуку’Алофа”
  • Russian: “Нукуалофа”
  • Sardinian: “Nuku’alofa”
  • Scots: “Nukuʻalofa”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Nuku’alofa”
  • Serbian: “Нукуалофа”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nuku’alofa”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nukualofa”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nukuʻalofa”
  • Shona: “Nukuʻalofa”
  • Sindhi: “نوڪوآلوفا”
  • Sinhala: “නුකුවාලෝෆා, ටොංගා”
  • Sinhala: “නුකුවාලෝෆා”
  • Skolt Sami: “Nuku’alofa”
  • Skolt Sami: “Nukualofa”
  • Skolt Sami: “Nukuʻalofa”
  • Slovak: “Nuku’alofa”
  • Slovenian: “Nuku’alofa”
  • Slovenian: “Nukuʻalofa”
  • Spanish: “Nuku’alofa”
  • Spanish: “Nuku’Alofa”
  • Spanish: “Nukualofa”
  • Spanish: “Nukuʻalofa”
  • Swahili: “Nuku’alofa”
  • Swedish: “Nuku’alofa”
  • Swedish: “Nukualofa”
  • Swedish: “Nukuʻalofa”
  • Tagalog: “Nukualofa”
  • Tagalog: “Nukuʻalofa”
  • Tahitian: “Nuku’alofa”
  • Tajik: “Нукуалофа”
  • Tamil: “நுகுஅலோஃபா”
  • Tamil: “நுகுஅலோபா”
  • Tamil: “நுக்கு’அலோபா”
  • Tatar: “Нукуалофа”
  • Telugu: “నుకువాలోఫా”
  • Thai: “นูกูอะโลฟา”
  • Thai: “นูกูอาโลฟา”
  • Tibetan: “ནུ་ཁུ་ཨ་ལོ་ཧྥ་”
  • Tibetan: “ནུ་ཁུ་ཨ་ལོ་ཧྥ།”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Nukuʻalofa”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Nukuʻalofa”
  • Turkish: “Nuku’alofa”
  • Turkmen: “Nukualofa”
  • Ukrainian: “Нуку’алофа”
  • Ukrainian: “Нукуа’лофа”
  • Ukrainian: “Нукуалофа”
  • Ukrainian: “Нукюалофа”
  • Urdu: “نوکوالوفا”
  • Uzbek: “Nukualofa”
  • Veps: “Nukualof”
  • Vietnamese: “Nuku’alofa”
  • Vietnamese: “Nukuʻalofa”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Nukuʻalofa”
  • Welsh: “Nuku’alofa”
  • Western Frisian: “Nuku’alofa”
  • Western Mari: “Нукуалофа”
  • Western Panjabi: “نوکو الوفا”
  • Wu Chinese: “努库阿洛法”
  • Yoruba: “Nukuʻalofa”
  • Yue Chinese: “努庫阿洛法”
  • Zulu: “i-Nukuʻalofa”
  • “ma tomo Nukuwalopa”
  • “Nukualofa”

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