Tonga

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Cities Tonga  
Country information country code: TO
continent: Australia, Oceania
capital: Nuku`alofa
languages: Tongan, English

EU membership: no
NATO membership: no

GSM: 900
GPS: 20 00 S, 175 00 W
electricity: 240V/50Hz

currency:
Tongan Pa'anga: TOP
1TOP = 0.497 USD
1TOP = 0.393 EUR

phone code: +676

Nuku`alofa, Tonga

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From wikipedia about Tonga

Tonga, officially the Kingdom of Tonga (Tongan: Puleʻanga Fakatuʻi ʻo Tonga), is a state and an archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean, comprising 176 islands scattered over of ocean in the South Pacific. Fifty-two of the islands are inhabited.

The Kingdom stretches over a distance of about 800 kilometres (500 miles) in a north-south line located at about a third of the distance from New Zealand to Hawaii.

Tonga also became known as the Friendly Islands because of the friendly reception accorded to Captain James Cook on his first visit there in 1773. He happened to arrive at the time of the inasi festival, the yearly donation of the first fruits to the Tui Tonga, the islands' paramount chief, and received an invitation to the festivities. According to the writer William Mariner, in reality the chiefs had wanted to kill Cook during the gathering, but could not agree on a plan. Mariner, William and Martin, John (1817). An account of the natives of the Tonga islands in the south Pacific ocean: With an original grammar and vocabulary of their language. Compiled and arranged from the extensive communications of Mr. William Mariner, several years resident in those islands, Volume 2,. Retrieved 3 November 2010.

Tonga is also the only island nation in the region to have avoided formal colonisation.. BBC News.

In 2010, Tonga took a decisive step towards becoming a fully functioning constitutional monarchy after legislative reforms paved the way for its first ever fully representative elections which resulted in the election of Noble Sialeʻataongo Tuʻivakanō as its first democratically elected Prime Minister.
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