Nuku’alofa
Nukuʻalofa is the capital and largest city of Tonga. It is located on the north coast of the island of Tongatapu, in the country's southernmost island group. It is the world's westernmost capital of a sovereign state.
- Type: City with 24,500 residents
- Description: capital city of Tonga
- Also known as: “Niukalofa”, “Nucu’alofa”, “Nukalofa”, “Nuku‘aloia”, “Nukuʻalofa”, “Нуку Алофа”, “Нуку-алофа”, “Нуку’Алофа”, “Нукуа’лофа”, “Нукуалофа қаласы”, “Нукюалофа”, “Сталіца Тонга”, “نوكو الفاو”, “नुकू आलोफ़ा”, “நுகுஅலோஃபா”, “ནུ་ཁུ་ཨ་ལོ་ཧྥ་”, “누크알로파”, “努瓜娄发”, and “奴瓜婁發”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Royal Palace and Basilica of St. Anthony of Padua.
Basilica of St. Anthony of Padua
Church
The Basilica of St. Anthony of Padua or simply Church of St.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nukuleka and Holonga.
Nukuleka
Village
Nukuleka is a small fishing village on the north-east… Nukuleka is situated 8 km east of Nuku’alofa.
Holonga
Village
Holonga is a small village in the eastern district of Tongatapu in the kingdom of Tonga. Holonga is situated 9 km southeast of Nuku’alofa.
Malapo
Village
Malapo is a small village in the eastern district of Tongatapu in the kingdom of Tonga. Malapo 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
UN/LOCODE
TO TBU
Open location code
52C6VQ8X+77
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Zulu—“Nuku’alofa” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Nukuʻalofa”
- Afrikaans: “Nukuʻalofa”
- Albanian: “Nuku’alofa”
- Amharic: “ኑኩአሎፋ”
- Arabic: “نوكو ألوفا”
- 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”
- Bengali: “নুকু‘আলোফা”
- Bengali: “নুকু’আলোফা”
- Bosnian: “Nukuʻalofa”
- Breton: “Nukuʻalofa”
- Bulgarian: “Нукуалофа”
- Catalan: “Nuku’alofa”
- Cebuano: “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”
- Croatian: “Nuku’alofa”
- Czech: “Nuku’alofa”
- Danish: “Nuku’alofa”
- Danish: “Nukualofa”
- Dutch: “Nuku’alofa”
- Esperanto: “Nukualofo”
- Estonian: “Nuku‘alofa”
- Fiji Hindi: “Nukualofa”
- Finnish: “Nuku’alofa”
- Finnish: “Nukuʻalofa”
- French: “Nuku’alofa”
- French: “Nukuʻalofa”
- Galician: “Nukuʻalofa”
- Georgian: “ნუკუალოფა”
- German: “Nuku’alofa”
- German: “Nukuʻalofa”
- Greek: “Νουκουαλόφα”
- Gujarati: “નુકુઅલોફા”
- Haitian: “Noukou’alofa”
- Hakka Chinese: “Nuku’alofa”
- Hebrew: “נוקואלופה”
- Hindi: “नुकुअलोफ़ा”
- Hungarian: “Nuku’alofa”
- Hungarian: “Nukuʻalofa”
- Icelandic: “Nuku’alofa”
- Icelandic: “Nukuʻalofa”
- Ido: “Nuku’alofa”
- Inari Sami: “Nukuʻalofa”
- Indonesian: “Nuku’alofa”
- Indonesian: “Nukuʻalofa”
- Interlingue: “Nukuʻalofa”
- Irish: “Nuku’alofa”
- Italian: “Nuku’alofa”
- Italian: “Nukuʻalofa”
- Japanese: “ヌクアロファ”
- Kannada: “ನುಕುಅಲೋಫಾ”
- Karachay-Balkar: “Нукуалофа”
- Kazakh: “Нукуалофа”
- Kirghiz: “Нукуалофа”
- Komering: “Nukuʻalofa”
- Korean: “누쿠알로파”
- Kotava: “Nuku’alofa”
- Kurdish: “Nukuelofa”
- Lao: “ນູກູອາໂລຟາ”
- Latin: “Nucualofa”
- Latin: “Nukualofa”
- Latvian: “Nukualofa”
- Lithuanian: “Nukualofa”
- Livvi: “Nukuʻalofa”
- 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 Nynorsk: “Nuku’alofa”
- Norwegian: “Nuku’alofa”
- Norwegian: “Nukuʻalofa”
- Nyanja: “Nuku’alofa”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Nuku’alofa”
- Ossetian: “Нукуалофæ”
- Panjabi: “ਨੁਕੂ ਅਲੋਫ਼ਾ”
- Persian: “نوکوآلوفا”
- Piemontese: “Nuku’alofa”
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Nuku’alofa”
- Polish: “Nuku’alofa”
- Polish: “Nukuʻalofa”
- Portuguese: “Nucualofa”
- Portuguese: “Nuku’alofa”
- Pushto: “نوکوالوفا”
- Romanian: “Nuku’alofa”
- Russian: “Нукуалофа”
- Sardinian: “Nuku’alofa”
- Scots: “Nukuʻalofa”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Nuku’alofa”
- Serbian: “Нукуалофа”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Nuku’alofa”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Nukuʻalofa”
- Shona: “Nukuʻalofa”
- Sindhi: “نوڪوآلوفا”
- Sinhala: “නුකුවාලෝෆා, ටොංගා”
- Sinhala: “නුකුවාලෝෆා”
- Skolt Sami: “Nukuʻalofa”
- Slovak: “Nuku’alofa”
- Slovenian: “Nuku’alofa”
- Slovenian: “Nukuʻalofa”
- Spanish: “Nuku’alofa”
- Spanish: “Nukualofa”
- Spanish: “Nukuʻalofa”
- Swahili: “Nuku’alofa”
- Swedish: “Nuku’alofa”
- Tagalog: “Nukuʻalofa”
- Tahitian: “Nuku’alofa”
- Tajik: “Нукуалофа”
- Tamil: “நுகுஅலோபா”
- Tamil: “நுக்கு’அலோபா”
- Tatar: “Нукуалофа”
- Telugu: “నుకువాలోఫా”
- Thai: “นูกูอะโลฟา”
- Thai: “นูกูอาโลฟา”
- Tibetan: “ནུ་ཁུ་ཨ་ལོ་ཧྥ།”
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Nukuʻalofa”
- Tornedalen Finnish: “Nukuʻalofa”
- Turkish: “Nuku’alofa”
- Turkmen: “Nukualofa”
- Ukrainian: “Нуку’алофа”
- Ukrainian: “Нукуалофа”
- Urdu: “نوکوالوفا”
- Uzbek: “Nukualofa”
- Veps: “Nukualof”
- 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”
Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Kolomotu’a and Tolosia.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Lotu mo Ngaue Hala Tu’i and Kalofiama ‘o Epworth.
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Worth a closer look: Tongatapu and Vava’u.
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