Tonga (disambiguation)

See also: Tonga language

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 and who speak the Tongan language
• the Tonga people of Zambia and Zimbabwe, an ethnic group mainly in southern Zambia and northern Zimbabwe, with some in Mozambique, who speak the Tonga language (Bantu group M)
• the Tonga people of Malawi, an ethnic group living on the shores of Lake Malawi who speak the Tonga language (Bantu group N)

Tonga may also refer to:

• one of several concepts of Polynesian mythology:
  • the southwest wind, the last wind to be reined in by Māui
  • the Tonga islands now home to the Kingdom of Tonga referred to above, settled by the ancestors of all Polynesians, the Lapita
  • the name of the first woman in Tonga

• persons with the surname Tonga:
  • Esi Tonga (1988–), Australian Rugby league player, brother of Willie Tonga
  • Willie Tonga (1983–), Australian Rugby league player, brother of Esi Tonga

• Tonga Island, New Zealand
• Tonga (Tuvalu), a village on the island of Nanumanga
• Tonga, Cameroon, a town in Ouest region
• A version of Intel's Pentium II microprocessor designed for laptops
• Operation Tonga, the military codename 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
• Te Tai Tonga
• A kind of horse-drawn taxi formerly used in northern India (see eg Imperial Gazetteer of India, 1908 vol 18 p 42; see http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/ pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V18_048.gif retrieved 16 June 2010).