Tonga
Information about Tonga
Tonga - unique among Pacific nations - never completely lost its indigenous governance.
The archipelagos of "The Friendly Islands" were united into a Polynesian kingdom in 1845.
Tonga became a constitutional monarchy in 1875 and a British protectorate in 1900; it withdrew from the protectorate and joined the Commonwealth of Nations in 1970.
Tonga remains the only monarchy in the Pacific.
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