ite-based communications system
domestic: radiotelephone service between islands
international: country code - 690; radiotelephone service to Samoa;
government-regulated telephone service (TeleTok); satellite earth
stations - 3

Radio broadcast stations:

AM NA, FM NA, shortwave NA (one radio station provides service to
all islands) (2002)

Radios:

1,000 (1997)

Internet country code:

.tk

Internet hosts:

273 (2008)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

1 (2000)

Internet users:

NA

Transportation
Tokelau

Ports and terminals:

none; offshore anchorage only

Military
Tokelau

Military - note:

defense is the responsibility of New Zealand

Transnational Issues
Tokelau

Disputes - international:

Tokelau included American Samoa's Swains Island (Olohega) in its
2006 draft constitution

This page was last updated on 18 December, 2008

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@Tonga

Introduction
Tonga

Background:

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.

Geography
Tonga

Location:

Oceania, archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean, about two-thirds of
the way from Hawaii to New Zealand

Geographic coordinates:

20 00 S, 175 00 W

Map references:

Oceania

Area:

total: 748 sq km
land: 718 sq km
water: 30 sq km

Area - comparative:

four times the size of Washington, DC

Land boundaries:

0 km

Coastline:

419 km

Maritime claims:

territorial sea: 12 nm
exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
continental shelf: 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation

Climate:

tropical; modified by trade winds; warm season (December to May),
cool season (May to December)

Terrain:

most islands have limestone base formed from uplifted coral
formation; others have limestone overlying volcanic base

Elevation extremes:

lowest point: Pacific Ocean 0 m
highest point: unnamed location on Kao Island 1,033 m

Natural resources:

fish, fertile soil

Land use:

arable land: 20%
permanent crops: 14.67