Tonga Country Profile
Generic Information
Tonga officially the Kingdom of Tonga, is a Polynesian sovereign state and archipelago comprising 169 islands of which 36 are inhabited. The total surface area is about 750 square kilometres (290 square miles) scattered over 700,000 square kilometres (270,000 square miles) of the southern Pacific Ocean. In 2014, the population of Tonga is estimated at 105,000 of whom 70% live on the main island of Tongatapu.
Tonga stretches across approximately 800 kilometres (500 mi) in a north-south line. It is surrounded by Fiji and Wallis and Futuna (France) to the northwest, Samoa to the northeast, Niue to the east, Kermadec (part of New Zealand) to the southwest, and New Caledonia (France) and Vanuatu to the farther west.
Generic country information can be located from sources which are regularly maintained and reflect current facts and figures. For a generic country overview, please consult the following sources:
Wikipedia Information on Tonga
Economist Intelligence Unit information on Tonga*
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Wolfram Alpha Information on Tonga
