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Tonga (nation) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 20 00 00 S degrees minutes |
Lat: -20.0000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 175 00 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -175.0000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Comprises over 150 islands; inhabited by Melanesians of lapita tradition 14th century BCE; dominion extended as far as Hawaii by 13th century CE; visited by Dutch in 17th century, British 18th century; civil wars 19th century; nation unified under King George Toupou I; official languages are Tongan and English, though other Polynesian languages are also spoken. |
Names: |
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| Tonga (preferred,C,V,English-P,U,N)
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| Tonga (Tongan (Tongalese)-P,U,N)
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| Tonga (Rundi)
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| Tonga (Somali)
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| Tonga (Tagalog)
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| Tonga (Sangho)
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| Tonga (Maltese)
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| Tonga (Vietnamese)
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| Tonga (Indonesian)
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| Tonga (Ganda (Ugandan language))
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| Tonga (Bambara)
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| Tonga (Croatian)
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| Tonga (Bosnian)
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| Tonga (Latin)
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| Tonga (Latvian)
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| Tonga (Lingala)
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| Tonga (Magyar (Hungarian))
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| Tonga (Danish)
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| Tonga (Norwegian (Nynorsk))
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| Tonga (Finnish)
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| Tonga (Swedish)
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| Tonga (Polish)
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| Tonga (Portuguese)
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| Tonga (Romanian)
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| Tonga (Slovak)
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| Tonga (Slovene)
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| Tonga (Spanish-P,U,N)
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| Tonga (Catalan)
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| Tonga (Basque)
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| Tonga (Aragonese)
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| Tonga (Akan)
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| Tonga (Irish Gaelic)
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| Tonga (Scots Gaelic)
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| Tonga (Welsh)
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| Tonga (Esperanto)
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| Tonga (German)
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| Tonga (Low German)
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| Tonga (Albanian)
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| Tonga (Breton)
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| Tonga (Cornish)
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| Tonga (Czech)
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| Tonga (Dutch)
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| Tonga (Afrikaans)
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| Tonga (French-P,U,N)
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| Tonga (Galician)
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| Tonga (Icelandic)
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| Tonga (Faroese)
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| Tonga (Italian)
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| Tonga (Sicilian)
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| Tonga (Lithuanian)
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| Tonga (Estonian)
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| Tonga (Greenlandic)
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| Tonga (Tok Pisin (Neomelanesian))
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| Tonga (Turkish)
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| Tonga (Norwegian (Bokmål))
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| Tonga (Romansh)
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| Tonga (Kikuyu)
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| Tonga (Luba-Katanga)
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| Tonga (Malay (macrolanguage))
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| Tonga (Norwegian)
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| Tonga (Northern Sami)
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| Tonga (Shona)
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| Tonga (Swahili (generic))
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| Tonga (Tonga (Tonga Islands))
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| Tonga (Arpitan)
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| Tonga (Ido)
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| Tonga (Limburgan)
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| Kingdom of Tonga (C,V,O,English,U,N)
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| Pule'anga Tonga (C,V,O,Tongan (Tongalese),U,N)
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| Pule'anga Fakatu'i 'o Tonga (C,V)
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| Pule 'Anga Tonga (C,V)
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| Tonga Islands (C,V)
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| Friendly Islands (C,V)
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| Royaume des Tonga (C,O,French,U,N)
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| Reino de Tonga (C,O,Spanish,U,N)
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| Тонга (C,O,Tajik)
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| Тонга (Serbian)
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| Тонга (Macedonian)
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| Тонга (Mongolian)
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| Тонга (Kazakh)
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| Тонга (Bulgarian)
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| Тонга (Russian-P,U)
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| Тонга (Ukrainian)
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| Королевство Тонга (C,O,Russian,U)
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| 汤加 (C,O,Chinese-P,U)
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| 汤加王国 (C,O,Chinese,U)
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| ثوهغا (C,O,Arabic-P,U)
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| مم ىَة ثوهغا (C,O,Arabic,U)
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| TON (C,O,ISO3L)
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| TO (C,O,ISO2L)
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| ISO776 (C,O,ISO3N)
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| TN (C,O,FIPS)
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| Tongan (C,O,English,U,A)
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| טונגה (C,U,Hebrew )
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| Bahasa Tonga (C,U,Indonesian)
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| Bahasa Tonga (Malay (macrolanguage))
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| Igitonga (C,U,Rwanda)
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| i-Tonga (C,U,Zulu)
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| Orílẹ́ède Tonga (C,U,Yoruba)
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| Pule‘anga Fakatu‘i ‘o Tonga (C,U,Tonga (Tonga Islands))
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| Tanga (C,U,Hausa)
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| Thonga (C,U,North Ndebele)
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| To’a (C,U,Tahitian)
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| Toga (C,U,Samoan)
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| Tònga (C,U,Occitan)
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| tonga (C,U,Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association))
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| Tongà (C,U,Malagasy)
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| Tongai (C,U,Magyar (Hungarian))
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| Tonganščina (C,U,Slovene)
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| Tonga nutome (C,U,Ewe)
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| Tông-ga (C,U,Vietnamese)
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| Tongiešu (C,U,Latvian)
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| Tongo (C,U,Esperanto)
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| Tongų (C,U,Lithuanian)
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| Tonguäns (C,U,Volapük)
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| Tonngaa (C,U,Fulah)
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| Tonqa (C,U,Azerbaijani)
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| Տոնգա (C,U,Armenian)
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| តុងហ្គា (C,U,Khmer)
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| ቶንጋ (C,U,Tigrinya)
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| ቶንጋ (Amharic)
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| تونغا (C,U,Arabic)
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| ตองกา (C,U,Thai)
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| Тонґа (C,U,Ukrainian)
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| ტონგა (C,U,Georgian)
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| 통가 (C,U,Korean)
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| トンガ (C,U,Japanese)
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| Τόνγκα (C,U,Greek)
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| تونگا (C,U,Uyghur)
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| تونگا (Persian-Farsi)
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| 東加 (C,U,Chinese)
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| தொங்கா (C,U,Tamil)
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| टोंगा (C,U,Marathi)
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| टोंगा (Hindi)
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| टोंगा (Nepali)
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| ټونګا (C,U,Pashto)
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| ประเทศตองกา (C,U,Thai)
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| تونجا (C,U,Arabic)
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| Тонгански (C,U,Macedonian)
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| ภาษาทองก้า (C,U,Thai)
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| ຕອງກາ (C,U,Lao)
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| ટોંગા (C,U,Gujarati)
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| トンガ王国 (C,U,Japanese)
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| ٹونگا (C,U,Urdu)
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| Տոնգերեն (C,U,Armenian)
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| ଟୋଙ୍ଗା (C,U,Odia)
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| ਤੋਨ੍ਗ (C,U,Panjabi, Eastern)
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| டோங்கா (C,U,Tamil)
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| Тангійская (C,U,Belarusian)
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| ថុងហ្គា (C,U,Khmer)
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| تۆنگا (C,U,Kurdish)
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| টোঙ্গা (C,U,Bengali)
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| တွန်ဂါ (C,U,Burmese)
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| ടോംഗ (C,U,Malayalam)
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| టోంగా (C,U,Telugu)
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| ಟೊಂಗ (C,U,Kannada)
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Hierarchical Position: |
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Place Types: |
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| nation (preferred, C) |
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gained independence June 4, 1970 |
| primary political unit (C) |
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| independent sovereign nation (C) |
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| kingdom (C) |
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in modern era, since 1845 |
| constitutional monarchy (C) |
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since 1875 |
| inhabited region (C) |
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since 14th century BCE |
| island nation (C) |
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| former territory/colony/dependent state (C) |
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| protectorate (H) |
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British, 1900-1970 |
| independent political entity (C) |
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Related geographic places: |
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| capital is .... |
Nukuʻalofa .......... (inhabited place) |
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(World, Oceania, Tonga, Tongatapu, Tongatapu) [1099653] |
| member of .... |
Commonwealth of Nations .......... (association) |
| ................ |
(World) [7005615] |
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joined association in 1970 |
| member of .... |
United Nations .......... (organization) |
| ................ |
(World) [7029605] |
| ................ |
joined organization in 1999 |
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Sources and Contributors: |
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| Pule‘anga Fakatu‘i ‘o Tonga.......... |
[VP] |
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GeoNames online [n.d.] 4032283 |
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