According to Countryaah website, the Kingdom of Tonga has about 110,000 residents.
Ethnic groups
Mostly Polynesians and approx. 300 Europeans
Religions
The main religion is Christianity with the Free Wesleyan Church (Methodists) as the main group and about 15% Mormons.
This makes Tonga the country with the highest rate of Mormons. The Mormon Church is Tonga’s largest private employer. Especially the Mormons from the USA transfer a lot of money to Tonga. For the Tongans, membership of the Mormons also has very pragmatic reasons. You have the “ticket” to Honolulu and Salt Lake City and thus to the USA.
National languages Tongan and English
Capital, other cities
The capital of Tonga is Nuku’alofa on the island of Tonga Tapu, with a population of approximately 24,000 people. According to Abbreviation Finder, TON stands for Tonga in English. Click to see other meanings of this 3-letter acronym.
Other cities are:
Neiafu, with around 4,000 residents
Haveluloto, with around 3,000 residents
Tonga: geography, map
Tonga consists of the three island groups Ha’apai, Tongatapu and Vava’u, which consist of a total of 176 islands. Of these, 36 islands are permanently inhabited. Check topmbadirectory for politics, flags, famous people, animals and plants of Tonga.
Eua, with an area of 87 km2 and about 5,100 residents
Niuas, with an area of 72 km2 and about 2,100 residents
Ha’apai, with an area of 259 km2 and about 68,000 residents. The archipelago consists of 53 islands, 51 of which are coral and two are volcanic islands.
Tongatapu, with an area of 109 km2 and about 8,400 residents
Vava’u, with an area of 119 km2 and about 19,000 residents. The archipelago consists of 34 islands
National borders, coastline, tidal range
Understandably, the island nation of Tonga in the Pacific has no borders with other countries.
The islands of Tonga together have a coastline of around 420 km.
In Nuku’alofa the mean tidal range is around 1.70 m.
Longitude and latitude
Tonga extends over the following geographical latitude (abbreviation Δφ) and geographical longitude (abbreviation Δλ):
Δφ = from 15 ° to 23 ° 30 ‘south latitude Δλ = from 173 ° to 177 ° west longitude
You can find detailed information on this subject under: Geographical longitude and latitude.
Legal time
For Tonga, the following value applies to Central European Time (CET), i.e. the time without summer time. A minus sign means that it is earlier there, a plus sign that it is later than CET:
Δt (CET) = + 12 h
More detailed explanations of the time can be found under: Time zones, time.
The highest point of the sun in Nuku’alofa
Nuku’alofa is located at a southern latitude of around φ = 21 ° ‘S and thus still in the tropics.
Since Nuku’alofa lies within the north and south parallels, the sun is perpendicular to the city and the country twice a year. That is roughly 10 days before December 21st and then again 10 days after December 21st.
Attention
If the image point of the sun (declination) is north of the latitude of Nuku’alofa, the sun at noon is not in the south as in our latitudes, but in the north. The sun moves from east to north to west, where, like us, it sets. This is the case on around 345 days a year.
mountains
The highest point in the country is an unnamed spot on Kao Island with a height of 1,033 m.
Lakes
The largest lake is a crater lake on Tofua.
Other larger lakes are Lake ‘Ano and a crater lake on Nomuka with its springs. James Cook, Abel Tasman and Captain Bligh have already used these as a source of fresh water.
Pacific
Tonga borders the Pacific Ocean with a total coast length of 420 km – more precisely, Tonga is located in the South Pacific, the so-called South Pacific. This region of the Pacific Ocean includes the Polynesian Islands as well as parts of Melanesia and Micronesia.
