Located in Oceania, Tonga is a small archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean, directly south of Samoa and about two-thirds of the way from Hawaii to New...
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Tonga (/ˈtɒŋə/ TONG-ə, /ˈtɒŋɡə/ TONG-gə; Tongan: [ˈtoŋa]), officially the Kingdom of Tonga (Tongan: Puleʻanga Fakatuʻi ʻo Tonga), is an island country...
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Tongatapu (redirect from Kolofoou, Tonga)
Tongatapu is the main island of Tonga and the site of its capital, Nukuʻalofa. It is located in Tonga's southern island group, to which it gives its name...
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overview of and topical guide to Tonga: Tonga is a sovereign island nation located in the South Pacific Ocean. Tonga comprises the Tonga Archipelago of 169...
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Tonga is a sovereign state in Polynesia that wholly utilises UTC+13:00 year round. Tonga does not currently observe daylight saving time, though they did...
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2022. Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai is 65 kilometres (40 mi) north of Tongatapu, the country's main island, and is part of the highly active Tonga–Kermadec Islands...
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Pacific coast (category Coastal geography)
Guinea Geography of Bougainville Geography of the Pitcairn Islands Geography of Samoa Geography of Solomon Islands Geography of Tonga Geography of Tuvalu...
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Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai (listen) is a submarine volcano in the South Pacific located about 30 km (19 mi) south of the submarine volcano of Fonuafoʻou...
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Tonga was the first South Pacific country to put a conservation programme in place with a series of national marine reserves. The country has four national...
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The history of Tonga is recorded since the ninth century BC, when seafarers associated with the Lapita diaspora first settled the islands which now make...
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Tongan tropical moist forests (redirect from Tonga tropical moist forests)
forests ecoregion that includes the Tonga archipelago and Niue. The ecoregion includes the Tonga archipelago, a group of 170 islands that extends 800 km north...
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Shortland Islands Treasurly Islands Northern Solomons (Bougainville) Tonga Geography of Tonga Trobiand Islands Vanuatu (New Hebrides) Banks Islands Maskelyne...
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the Solomon Islands Geography of Tokelau (New Zealand) Geography of Tonga Geography of Tuvalu Geography of Vanuatu Geography of Wallis and Futuna (France)...
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home remittances to family members (often aged) who prefer to remain in Tonga. Tongans themselves often have to operate in two different contexts, which...
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provided as an overview of and topical guide to geography: Geography – study of Earth and its people. an academic discipline – a body of knowledge given to...
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(villages and hamlets) in Tonga in alphabetical order with many local areas and nicknames as well. Coordinates are given for the centre of each place. All place...
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Tonga is a village on Nanumanga island in Tuvalu. As of 2012,[update] Tonga's population was 236, making it the second most populous village on Nanumanga...
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an island in Tonga. It is located in the far south of the Vavaʻu Group in the far north of the country. "Taula Island: Tonga". Geographical Names. Retrieved...
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The Crown of Tonga was made in 1873 for George Tupou I at the behest of his prime minister, The Reverend Shirley Waldemar Baker. The crown was fashioned...
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major town on any of the smaller islands, located on the island of Ovalau, and the remote Lau Group over the Koro Sea to the east near Tonga, from which it...
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Kao (island) (category Volcanoes of Tonga)
and fled to Samoa. The mountain became the island of Kao." Geography of Tonga List of volcanoes in Tonga "Kao". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution...
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Ocean, to the east of Tonga. It has an area of 260 square kilometres, and a coastline of 64 km. It claims an exclusive economic zone of 200 nautical miles...
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Tongic languages (category Languages of Tonga)
small group of Polynesian languages, which consists of at least two languages, Tongan and Niuean, and possibly a third, Niuafoʻouan. Tonga Niue Niuafo'ou...
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Telekitonga (redirect from Tele-ki-Tonga)
cyclones. Fiji, Tonga, and Nauru, Official Standard Names Approved by the United States Board on Geographic Names. U.S. Board on Geographic Names. 1974....
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Capricorn Seamount (category Geography of Tonga)
Capricorn Seamount is a seamount in Tonga. It rises 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) to a depth of about 360 m (1,180 ft) and is capped off by a 15 km (9.3 mi) wide...
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extremity. However, the chain's proximity to the northern end of the Tonga trench, and the presence of voluminous young volcanism on what should be the oldest...
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Oceania (redirect from Geography of Oceania)
and Tonga. American geographer Jesse Olney's 1845 book A Practical System of Modern Geography stated that it "comprises the numerous isles of the Pacific...
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Polynesia (redirect from Geography of Polynesia)
non-Polynesian language. Some of the Lau Islands to the southeast of Fiji have strong historic and cultural links with Tonga. However, in essence, Polynesia...
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The Geography (Ancient Greek: Γεωγραφικὴ Ὑφήγησις, Geōgraphikḕ Hyphḗgēsis, lit. "Geographical Guidance"), also known by its Latin names as the Geographia...
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The following article gives a list of association football confederations, sub-confederations and associations around the world. The sport's international...
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