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Flag Coat of Arms
Capital Nuku'alofa
Government Constitutional monarchy
Monarch King Tupou VI
Prime minister ʻAkilisi Pohiva
Population (2006 census) 101,169
GDP (2003/2004) US$148.9 million
GDP per capita US$1,287

The Kingdom of Tonga is the last remaining Polynesian kingdom in the South Pacific. It consists of an archipelago located directly south of Western Samoa. Its 171 islands, 48 of them inhabited, are divided into three main groups--Vava'u, Ha'apai, and Tongatapu--and cover an 800-kilometer (500 mi.)-long north-south line. [1]


Its population is about 100,000, mostly Christian and almost entirely Tongan in ethnicity. Their literacy rate is nearly 100%. Thanks to missionary work, about a third of Tongans are Mormon, making Tonga the place with the greatest concentration of Mormons outside Salt Lake City.[2]

Its government is a Constitutional hereditary monarchy, based on a constitution drafted in 1875 and revised in 1970, when it obtained its independence from Britain. Its GDP is US$148.9 million, and its per capita GDP is US$1,287. Its major natural resource is fish.

Its Constitution declares the Sabbath to be sacred forever, and businesses (including entertainment) close on Sunday each week.

Pangaimotu Island



  2. Condensed Knowledge, New York: Random House, 2008.