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The national flag of Tonga consists of a red field with a white canton charged with a red couped cross. Adopted in 1875 after being officially enshrined into the nation's constitution, it has been the flag of the Kingdom of Tonga since that year. The constitution stipulates that the national flag can never be changed.
Queen Salote of Tonga: The Story of an Era 1900-1965 (ISBN 1-86940-205-7) Latukefu, S. (1974), Church and State in Tonga, ANU Press, Canberra; Campbell, Ian C; Island Kingdom: Tonga Ancient and Modern, 2001, ISBN 0-908812-96-5 "Brief history of the Kingdom of Tonga", on the website of the Tongan Parliament
The history of Tonga is recorded since the ninth century BC, when seafarers associated with the Lapita diaspora first settled the islands which now make up the Kingdom of Tonga. [1] Along with Fiji and Samoa, the area served as a gateway into the rest of the Pacific region known as Polynesia . [ 2 ]
This page lists the individual Tonga year pages. It only references years after 1970, when the country gained independence from the United Kingdom . Twenty-first century
Tonga: 1858 1862 1875 Tonga: Trinidad and Tobago: 1498 1796 1801 1889 1962 Trinidad and Tobago: Tunisia: 1574 1831 1999 Tunisia: Turkey: 1844 1936 Turkey: Turkmenistan: 1868 1883 1917 1920 1922 1926 1937 1940 1953 1992 1997 2001 Turkmenistan: Tuvalu: 1892 1937 1976 1978 1995 1996 1997 Tuvalu: Uganda: 1894 1914 1962 Uganda: Ukraine: 1119 1362 ...
However, the former Tongan flag bearer still took part in the celebrations ahead of the July 26 event. Earlier in the day, Taufatofua participated in the torch relay, along with a slew of other ...
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions ... Flag of Tonga (1875-present) Ensigns ... Flag of the Kingdom of Rarotonga between 1888 and 1893.
Tonga (/ ˈ t ɒ ŋ ə / TONG-ə, / ˈ t ɒ ŋ ɡ ə / ⓘ TONG-gə; [a] Tongan:), officially the Kingdom of Tonga (Tongan: Puleʻanga Fakatuʻi ʻo Tonga), is an island country in Polynesia, part of Oceania. The country has 171 islands – of which 45 are inhabited. [1]