Tonga

Tonga, bein the Kinrick o Tonga in the Scots, is a Polynesie kintra an airchipelagae comprisin 169 islands, o that 36 are inhabitit. The tot surface area is aboot  ower  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.

Tonga stretches athort approximately  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.Mariner, William and Martin, John (1817). An account of the natives of the Tonga islands in the south Pacific Ocean: With an original grammar and vocabulary of their language. Compiled and arranged from the extensive communications of Mr. William Mariner, several years' resident in those islands, Volume 2, pp. 64–65. Retrieved 3 November 2010.

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.Tonga: History . The Commonwealth. 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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