Tonga

Isolated islands include Niuafoou Niuatoputapu and Tafahi together known as the. The manufacturing sector consists of handicrafts and a few other very small-scale industries which contribute only about 3 of GDP.

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The government of Tonga asked citizens to move inland early on Saturday after an earthquake of magnitude 73 struck the sea around 211 km 131 miles from the capital though a tsunami warning.

. Tonga was named the sixth-most corrupt country in the world by Forbes magazine in 2008. Tonga participated in World War I as part of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force but the Tonga Defense Force TDF was not established until 1939 at the beginning of World War II. About two-thirds of its population lives on the island.

Covering a total area of 750 sqkm Tonga is an archipelago composed of 169 islands of which only 36 islands are inhabited. The TDF was disbanded at the end of the war but was reactivated in 1946 as the. Tonga an archipelago of islands with about 105000 residents is located about 1480 miles northeast of New Zealand in the South Pacific.

1 day agoCNN The government of the island nation of Tonga called for an immediate evacuation inland on Friday following what it said was a 79 magnitude earthquake that triggered a tsunami warning. Tonga officially Kingdom of Tonga Tongan Fakatui o Tonga also called Friendly Islands country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. 1 day agoThe government of Tonga issued a tsunami warning on Friday after an earthquake of magnitude 73 struck and warned residents to move inland to higher ground.

In 1943 New Zealand helped train about 2000 Tongan troops who saw action in the Solomon Islands. It is the administrative commercial and economic center of the country. 1 day agoTerrified locals in Tonga have fled to reach higher ground after the government issued a tsunami warning in response to a 73-magnitude earthquake off the islands coast today.

Tongatapu in the south Haapai in the centre and Vavau in the north. It is the South Pacifics last Polynesian kingdom a constitutional hereditary monarchy. Located on the northern coast of Tongatapu the archipelagos largest island is Nukualofa the capital and the largest city of Tonga.

It consists of some 170 islands divided into three main island groups. Tonga was ranked the 165th-safest investment destination in the world in the March 2011 Euromoney Country Risk rankings. The earthquake struck in the sea at.

Tonga was a protected state of the United Kingdom until 1970. Has commended Tonga for its move toward fuller democracy through the 2010 election of its first popular majority parliament and subsequent elections in 2014 and 2017 with international observers deemed.

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