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Aliases: Friendly Islands, Kingdom of Tonga, Pule'anga Fakatu'i 'o Tonga

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Geography
Area 747 km²
Continent Australia
Land area 717 km²
Water area 30 km²
Land boundaries 0 km
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Coastline 419 km
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Lowest point 0 m
Highest point 1,046 m
People
Population 106,095
Official languages
  • English
  • Tongan
Religion Protestant
Government
Long country name Kingdom of Tonga
Short country name Tonga
Long local name Pule'anga Fakatu'i 'o Tonga
Short local name Tonga
Former name
  • Friendly Islands
Government type Constitutional monarchy
Capital Nuku'alofa
Economy
GDP (PPP) 591,000,000 USD
GDP (OER) 455,000,000 USD
GDP (real growth rate) 2.5 %
GDP - per capita (PPP) 5,900 USD
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Labor force 33,800
Unemployment rate 1.1 %
Population below poverty line 22.5 %
Budget revenues 181,200,000 USD
Budget expenditures 181,200,000 USD
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Taxes and other revenues 39.8 % of GDP
Budget surplus or deficit 0 % of GDP
Public debt 48 % of GDP
Inflation rate 7.4 %
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Commercial bank prime lending rate 8 %
Stock of narrow money 130,800,000 USD
Stock of broad money 130,800,000 USD
Stock of domestic credit 139,200,000 USD
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Current account balance -53,000,000 USD
Exports 18,400,000 USD
Imports 250,200,000 USD
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold 198,500,000 USD
External debt 189,900,000 USD
National currency pa'anga
National currency (code) TOP
National currency (symbol) T$
National currency rate to USD 2.228

Tonga - unique among Pacific nations - never completely lost its indigenous governance. The archipelagos of "The Friendly Islands" were united into a Polynesian kingdom in 1845. Tonga became a constitutional monarchy in 1875 and a British protectorate in 1900; it withdrew from the protectorate and joined the Commonwealth of Nations in 1970. Tonga remains the only monarchy in the Pacific; in 2008, King George TUPOU V announced he was relinquishing most of his powers leading up to parliamentary elections in 2010. TUPOU died in 2012 and was succeeded by his brother 'Aho'eitu TUPOU VI. Tropical Cyclone Gita, the strongest-ever recorded storm to impact Tonga, hit the islands in February 2018 causing extensive damage.

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