Tonga (disambiguation)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tonga may refer to the Kingdom of Tonga or the African Tonga ethnic groups:
- Kingdom of Tonga, Pacific Island nation whose people are known as Tongans
- the Tonga people of Zambia and Zimbabwe, an ethnic group mainly in southern Zambia and northern Zimbabwe, with some in Mozambique
- the Tonga people of Malawi, an ethnic group living on the shores of Lake Malawi
Tonga may also refer to:
Languages:
- Tongan language, spoken in the Kingdom of Tonga
- Tonga language (Zambia) (Bantu group M)
- Tonga language (Malawi) (Bantu group N)
- Mos language, also known as Tonga, spoken in Malaya and Thailand
Places:
- 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
Persons:
- Tonga (name), a list of those with Tonga as either a given name or surname
In Polynesian mythology:
- the southwest wind, the last wind to be reined in by Māui
- the name of the first woman in Tonga
Other uses:
- 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
This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. |
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike; additional terms may apply for the media files.