Where is Tonga?

Tonga is a country in Oceania.

Tonga in gold. Drawn from the outlines the game uses.

Type: Country
Continent: Oceania
Region: Polynesia
Land borders: None. It shares no land border with another country.
Area: About 280 km² on the game’s map
Hemispheres: Southern; Western
Capital city: 21.14° S, 175.20° W

About Tonga

Tonga is a Polynesian kingdom of 171 islands scattered across the South Pacific directly south of Samoa. It is the only Pacific nation to have kept its monarchical government throughout the colonial era, and the only extant indigenous monarchy in the islands. Its capital sits on Tongatapu, where over 70 percent of the population lives.

Clues from Atlas Daily

Round 5 on 22 October 2026 (#51), hardest clue first:

Thorium dating places settlers in the earliest known inhabited town here by 888 BC.
Pro-democracy rioting in November 2006 destroyed more than 60 percent of the capital's downtown area.
Its only Olympic medal is a silver in super heavyweight boxing won at the 1996 Atlanta Games.
This archipelago sits directly south of Samoa, roughly two thirds of the way from Hawaii to New Zealand.

Play today’s puzzle

Nearby places from past puzzles

Fiji 740 km away
New Zealand 2,400 km away
Kiribati 2,800 km away
Solomon Islands 3,000 km away
Nauru 3,000 km away
Marshall Islands 3,500 km away
Australia 3,800 km away
Papua New Guinea 4,200 km away

More: past puzzles and answers · geography quiz · how to play

Sources: Wikipedia: Tonga. Borders, area and map from Natural Earth 1:50m outlines, the same ones the game uses.