Tonga (disambiguation)
Appearance
Tonga is a Pacific Island nation whose people are known as Tongans.
Tonga may also refer to:
Ethnic groups
[edit]- Tonga people (Zambia and Zimbabwe)
- Tonga people (Malawi)
- Tongans, a Polynesian group
Languages
[edit]- Tongan language, or Tonga, a Polynesian language spoken in Tonga in the South Pacific
- Tonga language (Zambia and Zimbabwe), or Chitonga, a Bantu language spoken in Zambia and Zimbabwe
- Tonga language (Mozambique), or Gitonga, a Bantu language spoken in Mozambique
- Tonga language (Malawi), or Chitonga, a Bantu language spoken in Malawi
- Ten'edn, also known as Tonga or Mos, a Mon-Khmer language spoken in Thailand and Malaysia
Places
[edit]- Kingdom of Tonga (1900–1970), protected state of the United Kingdom
- Tonga, Cameroon, a town and commune in Ouest region
- Tonga River, Fiji
- Tonga Island, New Zealand
- Tonga, Mpumalanga, South Africa, a town
- Tonga, southern Sudan, a village that housed a Catholic mission station; see Shilluk people
- Tonga, Tuvalu, a village on the island of Nanumanga, Tuvalu
- Tonga Plate, a small tectonic plate in the southwest Pacific Ocean
- Tonga Trench, an oceanic trench in the south Pacific Ocean
- Tonga, an area of northwest Unst, Scotland
Polynesian mythology
[edit]- the southwest wind, the last wind to be reined in by Māui
- the name of the first woman in Tonga
Other uses
[edit]- Tonga (name), a list of those with Tonga as either a given name or surname
- A version of Intel's Pentium II microprocessor designed for laptops
- Operation Tonga, an airborne operation during the World War II Battle of Normandy
- Tonga Cup, Tonga's premier knockout football tournament
- Tanga (carriage) or Tonga, a horse-drawn carriage in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh
- Tonga, codename of AMD Radeon GPUs; see R9 285/380/380X