Tonga (disambiguation)

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Tonga may refer to the following:

• A Pacific Island nation: see Tonga.
• An island in New Zealand: see Tonga Island, New Zealand.
• One of several concepts of Polynesian mythology.
  • The southwest wind, the last wind to be reined in by Māui.
  • The Tonga islands, described above, settled by the ancestors of all Polynesians, the Lapita.
  • The name of the first woman in Tonga.
• A people of Southern Zambia and Zimbabwe; see Tonga people.
• In São Tomé e Príncipe, a child of a temporary immigrant.
• In India, a horse carriage: see tonga (carriage).
• A village on Nanumanga (Tuvalu): see Tonga (Tuvalu).
• A version of Intel's Pentium II microprocessor designed for laptops.
• The military codename (Operation Tonga) given to an airborne operation during the Battle of Normandy.
• A village located in Shilluk areas of southern Sudan that housed a Catholic mission station

Tonga is also the name of three different languages:

• Tonga language (Bantu group M) spoken in Zambia and Zimbabwe
• Tonga language (Bantu group N) spoken in Malawi
• Tonga language (Mon-Khmer) spoken in Thailand and Malaysia

There is also the similarly-named Tongan language.