Tonga
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Tonga, bein the Kinrick o Tonga in the Scots, is a Polynesie kintra an airchipelagae comprisin 169 islands, o that 36 are inhabitit.[1] The tot surface area is aboot 750 square kilometre (290 sq mi) ower 700,000 square kilometre (270,000 sq mi) o the soothren Paceefic Ocean. The sovereign state has a population o 100,209 fowk,{{UN Population|re100o that 70% reside on the main island o Tongatapu.
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Tonga stretches athort approximately 800 kilometre (500 mi) in a north-sooth line. It is surroondit bi Fiji an Wallis an Futuna (Fraunce) tae the northwast, Samoa tae the northeast, Niue tae the east, Kermadec (pairt o New Zealand) tae the soothwast, an New Caledon (Fraunce) an Vanuatu tae the forder wast.
Tonga becam kent in the Wast as the "Freendly Islands" acause o the congenial reception accordit tae Caiptain James Cook on his first vesit in 1773. He arrived at the time o the ʻinasi festival, the yearly donation o the First Fruits tae the Tuʻi Tonga (the islands' paramoont chief) an sae received an invitation tae the festivities. Accordin tae the writer William Mariner, the chiefs wantit tae kill Cook in the gaitherin but coudnae gree on a plan.[6]
Frae 1900 til 1970, Tonga haed Breetish pertectit state status, wi the Unitit Kinrick leukin efter its furrin affairs unner a Treaty o Freendship. The kintra niver relinquished its sovereignty tae ony furrin pouer.[7] In 2010, Tonga teuk a decisive path thewarts becomin a constitutional monarchy raither nor a traditional absolute kinrick, efter legislative reforms passed a coorse for the first pairtial representative elections.
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