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Tonga
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Tonga
Country
Continent: Australia/Oceania
Capital: Nukuʻalofa
National Language: English and Tongan
Government: Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy
Status in OTL: Active

The Kingdom of Tonga, in the south Pacific Ocean, comprises an archipelago of 171 islands, 48 of them inhabited.

The earliest known Tongan culture existed in the 12th century. Europeans first arrived in the 17th century. By 1900, Tonga was a British Empire Protectorate until the 1950s. It became a British commonwealth in the 1970s.

Tonga in Worldwar[]

Tonga was one of the few British spheres of influence that were not overrun by the Race's Conquest Fleet during their invasion of the Earth in 1942. As the Race was not equipped to handle remote islands, Tonga never attracted their interest.[1]

References[]

  1. See the Colonization map. It's not clear if Tonga remains a British Protectorate (in name if not in fact) or has formally declared independence.
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