Tonga, officially Kingdom of Tonga, Tongan Fakatuʿi ʿo Tonga, also called Friendly Islands, country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of some 170 islands divided into three main island groups: Tongatapu in the south, Haʿapai in the centre, and Vavaʿu in the north. read more
By the 12th century, Tongans and the Tongan paramount chief, the Tuʻi Tonga, had a reputation across the central Pacific—from Niue, Samoa, Rotuma, Wallis & Futuna, New Caledonia to Tikopia—leading some historians to speak of a Tuʻi Tonga Empire. read more
The Tongan people come from the Kingdom of Tonga. The Kingdom ofTonga is a Polynesian sovereign state of 176 small islands in thesouthern Pacific Ocean. read more
Captain Cook the man named Tonga " The Friendly Island." Why because Tongans where kind to Captain Cook when he arrived to Tonga. read more