Country Fast Facts:Tonga. October 3, 2007 / 1:10 PM EDT / CBS Tonga. moveClock(); ... Tonga became a constitutional monarchy in 1875 and a British protectorate in 1900; ...

Tonga is a Polynesian country of more than 170 South Pacific islands and home to about 100,000 people. It’s a remote archipelago that lies about 800 kilometers (497 miles) east of Fiji and 2,380 ...

In 2015, the country elected its first non-noble prime minister. A former British protectorate, Tonga became fully independent in 1970, though it was never formally colonised.

The country of Tonga was sent back to the 'dark ages' after the country's only underwater internet cable was severed. Residents of the South Pacific nation of Tonga are experiencing a total ...

Malakai Fekitoa may have been born and raised on the small island nation of Tonga, but his goal as a promising young rugby player was always to represent a country thousands of miles across the ocean.

On Saturday, people who live on the East Coast but are originally from a country in the South Pacific called the Kingdom of ...

Ash covered a street in Nuku’alofa, Tonga’s capital, on Jan. 16, the day after a volcanic eruption and tsunami struck the country. Credit... Mary Lyn Fonua/Matangi Tonga/Agence France-Presse ...

Flag bearer Pita Taufatofua of Tonga leads out his country during the Opening Ceremony of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games at PyeongChang Olympic Stadium on February 9, 2018 in ...

Taufatofua also served as Tonga's flagbearer during the PyeongChang Olympics in 2018, when he competed in cross-country skiing. More recently, he attempted to qualify for kayaking during the Oceania ...

Of Tonga's 106,513 inhabitants, 64,156 are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, according to the Salt Lake City-based faith's official statistics.

In 2015, the country elected its first non-noble prime minister. A former British protectorate, Tonga became fully independent in 1970, though it was never formally colonised.

A group of more than 170 islands spread over an area of the South Pacific roughly the size of Japan, Tonga is the last Polynesian monarchy. A deeply conservative, Christian country, Tonga voted in ...