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Tonga

Tonga, the "Friendly Islands", is an archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean, consisting of 169 islands, of which 36 are inhabited. The tourist industry is relatively undeveloped.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Tongatapu and Vava’u.

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is Tonga's largest island with over two-thirds of the country's population. There are some interesting places to visit and some nice beaches with good snorkelling and provides a good opportunity to view a unique culture.

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is a group of more than 50 islands in Tonga, about 250 km north of . They are either raised coral limestone or coral atolls. The beautiful harbour opposite the main town of Neiafu is a common destination for yachties sailing the South Pacific.

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, formerly Middelburg Island, is an island in the kingdom of Tonga. It is close to , but forms a separate administrative division. It has an area of 87.44 km2, and a population in 2021 of 4,903 people.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Ha’apai and Niuas.

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Ha'apai is an island group of about 60 islands in Tonga, south of the group and north of . Only 20 islands are constantly inhabited. Close to one of the islands, Tofua, in the west of the group, is where the Mutiny on the Bounty occurred in 1789.

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Niua is a division of the Kingdom of Tonga, namely the northernmost group of islands. It consists of three islands which together have an area of 71.69 km2 and a population of 1,150.

Tonga

Latitude of center
-21.1716° or 21° 10′ 18″ south
Longitude of center
-175.1976° or 175° 11′ 51″ west
Population
104,000
Area
748 km² (289 miles²)
Capital
Nuku’alofa
Currency
Pa'anga (TOP)
Phone code
.to
Internet domain
676
Open­Street­Map ID
node 424311848
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
4032283
Wiki­data ID
Q678
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Tonga” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Тонга”
  • Achinese: “Tonga”
  • Afrikaans: “Tonga”
  • Akan: “Tonga”
  • Albanian: “Tonga”
  • Amharic: “ቶንጋ”
  • Amis: “Tonga”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Τόγγα”
  • Angika: “टोंगा”
  • Arabic: “تونجا”
  • Arabic: “تونغا”
  • Aragonese: “Tonga”
  • Armenian: “Տոնգա”
  • Armenian: “Տոնգերեն”
  • Arpitan: “Tonga”
  • Assamese: “টংগা”
  • Asturian: “Tonga”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tonqa”
  • Balinese: “Tonga”
  • Bambara: “Tonga”
  • Banjar: “Tonga”
  • Bashkir: “Тонга”
  • Basque: “Tonga”
  • Belarusian: “Тонга”
  • Bengali: “টোঙ্গা”
  • Betawi: “Tonga”
  • Bishnupriya: “টঙ্গা”
  • Bislama: “Tonga”
  • Bosnian: “Tonga”
  • Breton: “Tonga”
  • Bulgarian: “Кралство Тонга”
  • Bulgarian: “Тонга”
  • Burmese: “တွန်ဂါ”
  • Burmese: “တွန်ဂါနိုင်ငံ”
  • Burmese: “တုံဂါနိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Regne de Tonga”
  • Catalan: “Tonga”
  • Cebuano: “Tonga”
  • Central Bikol: “Tonga”
  • Central Kurdish: “تۆنگا”
  • Chavacano: “Tonga”
  • Chechen: “Тонга”
  • Cherokee: “ᏔᏂᎪ”
  • Cheyenne: “Tonga”
  • Chinese: “Tonga”
  • Chinese: “東加”
  • Chinese: “汤加”
  • Chinese: “汤加群岛 / 東加”
  • Chinese: “湯加”
  • Church Slavic: “Тонга”
  • Cornish: “Tonga”
  • Corsican: “Tonga”
  • Corsican: “Tongu”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Tonga”
  • Croatian: “Tonga”
  • Czech: “Tonga”
  • Dagbani: “Kingdom of Tonga”
  • Danish: “Tonga”
  • Dhivehi: “ޓޮންގާ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Tonga”
  • Dotyali: “टोङ्गा”
  • Dotyali: “टोन्गा”
  • Dutch: “Koninkrijk Tonga”
  • Dutch: “TO”
  • Dutch: “TON”
  • Dutch: “Tonga”
  • Dzongkha: “ཊོང་གྷ”
  • Eastern Mari: “Тонга”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تونجا”
  • Esperanto: “Reĝlando Tongo”
  • Esperanto: “Tonga”
  • Esperanto: “Tongo”
  • Estonian: “Tonga Kuningriik”
  • Estonian: “Tonga”
  • Ewe: “Tonga nutome”
  • Extremaduran: “Tonga”
  • Faroese: “Tonga”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Tonga”
  • Fijian: “Toga”
  • Finnish: “Tonga”
  • Finnish: “Tongan kuningaskunta”
  • French: “Royaume des Tonga”
  • French: “TO”
  • French: “Tonga”
  • Fulah: “Tonnga”
  • Fulah: “Tonngaa”
  • Gagauz: “Tonga”
  • Galician: “Tonga”
  • Ganda: “Tonga”
  • Georgian: “ტონგა”
  • German: “Tonga”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Tonga”
  • Gilaki: “تؤنگا”
  • Goan Konkani: “Tonga”
  • Goan Konkani: “टोंगा”
  • Greek: “Τόνγκα”
  • Guarani: “Tónga”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Tonga”
  • Gujarati: “ટોંગા”
  • Haitian: “Tonga”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Tonga”
  • Hausa: “Tonga”
  • Hebrew: “טונגה”
  • Hindi: “टोंगा”
  • Hungarian: “Tonga”
  • Hungarian: “Tongai Királyság”
  • Hungarian: “Tongai”
  • Icelandic: “Tonga”
  • Ido: “Tonga”
  • Igbo: “Tonga”
  • Iloko: “Tonga”
  • Inari Sami: “Tonga kunâgâskodde”
  • Inari Sami: “Tonga”
  • Indonesian: “Bahasa Tonga”
  • Indonesian: “Tonga”
  • Interlingua: “tonga”
  • Interlingua: “Tonga”
  • Interlingue: “Tonga”
  • Inuktitut: “ᑑᙵ”
  • Irish: “Tonga”
  • Italian: “Tonga”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Tongga”
  • Japanese: “トンガ”
  • Japanese: “トンガ王国”
  • Javanese: “Tonga”
  • Kalaallisut: “Tonga”
  • Kalmyk: “Тонһлмудин Нутг”
  • Kannada: “ಟೊಂಗ”
  • Kannada: “ಟೊಂಗಾ”
  • Kannada: “ಟೋಂಗಾ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “TGA”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “TON”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Tonga Korolligi”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Tonga”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Тонга Короллиги”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Тонга”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Тонга”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Тонгону короллугъу”
  • Kashmiri: “ٹونگا”
  • Kashubian: “Tonga”
  • Kazakh: “Тонга”
  • Khmer: “តុងហ្គា”
  • Khmer: “ថុងហ្គា”
  • Kikuyu: “Tonga”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Tonga”
  • Kirghiz: “Тонга”
  • Komering: “Tonga”
  • Korean: “통가”
  • Kotava: “Tonga”
  • Kurdish: “Tonga”
  • Ladin: “Tonga”
  • Ladino: “Tonga”
  • Lao: “ຕົງກາ”
  • Lao: “ທອງກາ”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດຕົງກາ”
  • Latin: “Tonga”
  • Latvian: “Tonga”
  • Latvian: “Tongiešu”
  • Ligurian: “Tonga”
  • Limburgan: “Tonga”
  • Lingala: “Tonga”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Tonga”
  • Literary Chinese: “東加”
  • Lithuanian: “Tonga”
  • Lithuanian: “Tongų”
  • Livvi: “Tonga”
  • Lombard: “Tonga”
  • Low German: “Tonga”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Tonga”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Tonga”
  • Luxembourgish: “Tonga”
  • Macedonian: “Тонга”
  • Macedonian: “Тонгански”
  • Malagasy: “Tongà”
  • Malagasy: “Tônga”
  • Malay: “Bahasa Tonga”
  • Malay: “Tonga”
  • Malayalam: “ടോംഗ”
  • Malayalam: “ടോങ്ക”
  • Maltese: “Renju ta’ Tonga”
  • Maltese: “Tonga”
  • Manipuri: “ꯇꯣꯡꯒꯥ”
  • Manx: “Yn Tongey”
  • Maori: “Tonga”
  • Marathi: “टोंगा”
  • Mazanderani: “تونگا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Tonga”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tonga”
  • Minangkabau: “Tonga”
  • Mingrelian: “ტონგა”
  • Mongolian: “Тонга”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “طونݣا”
  • Nauru: “Tonga”
  • Navajo: “Kʼédaaníinii Bikéyah”
  • Nepali: “टोंगा”
  • Nepali: “टोङगा”
  • Nepali: “टोङ्गा”
  • North Ndebele: “Thonga”
  • Northern Frisian: “Tonga”
  • Northern Sami: “Tonga gonagasriika”
  • Northern Sami: “Tonga”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kongedømmet Tonga”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tonga”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tonga”
  • Norwegian: “Tonga”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tònga”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Tonga”
  • Oriya: “ଟୋଙ୍ଗା”
  • Ossetian: “Тонгæ”
  • Pali: “टोंगा”
  • Pampanga: “Tonga”
  • Panjabi: “ਟੋਂਗਾ”
  • Panjabi: “ਟੌਂਗਾ”
  • Papiamento: “Tonga”
  • Persian: “تونگا”
  • Piemontese: “Tònga”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Tonga”
  • Polish: “Tonga”
  • Portuguese: “Tonga”
  • Pushto: “تونګا”
  • Pushto: “ټونګا”
  • Quechua: “Tonga”
  • Quechua: “Tunqa”
  • Romanian: “Tonga”
  • Romansh: “Tonga”
  • Rundi: “Tonga”
  • Russia Buriat: “Тонга”
  • Russian: “Королевство Тонга”
  • Russian: “Тонга”
  • Samoan: “Toga”
  • Samogitian: “Tuonga”
  • Sango: “Tonga”
  • Sanskrit: “टोंगा”
  • Sardinian: “Tonga”
  • Scots: “Tonga”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Tonga”
  • Serbian: “Тонга”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tonga”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းထွင်းၵႃႇ”
  • Shona: “Tonga”
  • Sicilian: “Tonga”
  • Silesian: “Tůnga”
  • Sindhi: “ٽونگا”
  • Sinhala: “ටොංගා”
  • Skolt Sami: “Tonga koonǥõskåʹdd”
  • Skolt Sami: “Tonga”
  • Slovak: “Tonga”
  • Slovak: “Tongské kráľovstvo”
  • Slovenian: “kraljestvo Tonga”
  • Slovenian: “Kraljevina Tonga”
  • Slovenian: “TGA”
  • Slovenian: “TO”
  • Slovenian: “Tonga”
  • Slovenian: “Tonganščina”
  • Somali: “Tonga”
  • South Azerbaijani: “تونقا”
  • Spanish: “Reino de Tonga”
  • Spanish: “Tonga”
  • Sundanese: “Tonga”
  • Swahili: “Tonga”
  • Swedish: “Konungariket Tonga”
  • Swedish: “Tonga”
  • Swiss German: “Tonga”
  • Tagalog: “Tonga”
  • Tahitian: “To’a”
  • Tajik: “Тонга”
  • Tamil: “டோங்கா”
  • Tamil: “தொங்கா”
  • Tatar: “Тонга”
  • Telugu: “టోంగా”
  • Thai: “ตองกา”
  • Thai: “ประเทศตองกา”
  • Thai: “ประเทศตองงา”
  • Thai: “ภาษาทองก้า”
  • Tibetan: “ཊོང་ག”
  • Tigrinya: “ቶንጋ”
  • Tok Pisin: “Tonga”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Pule‘anga Fakatu‘i ‘o Tonga”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Tonga”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Tonga”
  • Tsonga: “Tonga”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “تونڨا”
  • Turkish: “Tonga”
  • Turkmen: “Tonga”
  • Twi: “Tonga”
  • Udmurt: “Тонга”
  • Uighur: “Ton’ga”
  • Uighur: “تونگا”
  • Ukrainian: “Тонга”
  • Ukrainian: “Тонґа”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Tonga”
  • Urdu: “ٹونگا”
  • Uzbek: “Tonga”
  • Venetian: “Tonga”
  • Veps: “Tong”
  • Vietnamese: “Tông-ga”
  • Vietnamese: “Tonga”
  • Vietnamese: “Vương quốc Tonga”
  • Volapük: “Tonguäns”
  • Võro: “Tonga”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tonga”
  • Welsh: “Tonga”
  • Western Frisian: “Tonga”
  • Western Mari: “Тонга”
  • Western Panjabi: “ٹونگا”
  • Wolof: “Tonga”
  • Wu Chinese: “湯加”
  • Xhosa: “Thonga”
  • Yakut: “Тонга”
  • Yiddish: “טאנגא”
  • Yiddish: “טאנגאַ”
  • Yoruba: “Tonga”
  • Yoruba: “Tóngà”
  • Yue Chinese: “湯加”
  • Zeeuws: “Tonga”
  • Zhuang: “Tonga”
  • Zulu: “i-Tonga”
  • “ma Tona”
  • “TGA”
  • “TO”
  • “TON”
  • “Tonga”
  • “Tuonga”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Tonga”. Photo: Haanofonua, CC BY-SA 3.0.