Tonga

Volcanic eruptions in Tonga have created a new island.

I live in Tonga.

Nukuʻalofa is the capital of Tonga.

Mining for polymetallic nodules would cause irreversible damage to the region, including Kiribati the Cook Islands, Nauru, Tonga, Papua New Guinea and Tuvalu.

Tonga has a reasonably sound basic infrastructure and well developed social services.

Tonga - unique among Pacific nations - never completely lost its indigenous governance.

Efforts to aid the tens of thousands of people affected by Tonga’s disastrous volcanic eruption are beginning to gather momentum, with the first arrivals of aid by plane and boat from New Zealand and Australia.

The report also said mining for polymetallic nodules, potato-sized lumps found in the seabed that contain metals used in battery manufacturing and high-tech industries, would cause “essentially irreversible damage” to the region, including Kiribati the Cook Islands, Nauru, Tonga, Papua New Guinea and Tuvalu.

Tonga is in Polynesia.

Enela cleared their way through the throng, speaking in Tonga, a heavy language that freighted the air with ceremony.

Coming up along the Cart-Road a tonga passed me, and my pony, tired with standing so long, set off at a canter.

When his tyre went flat, he leapt off and shouted for a tonga.

The Muslim ladies who earlier moved out in covered palanquins, dolis and muhafas or completely veiled coaches and victorias are now obliged to go about in tongas, rikshaws and buses leaving aside the earlier scruples.