Demographics of Tonga

As the inhabitants of Tonga Tongan be called. These speak Tongan and are among the oldest peoples of Polynesia.

They have settled already in the centuries before the Christian era to the Tonga Archipelago. In the past, the Tongans maintained a powerful navy, with up to a hundred -man crew consisted of large double hull boats and defense and conquest purposes served. So that the one thousand kilometers away Samoa was about 600 AD conquered and some four hundred years kept tribute. Other islands were subjected, so that the Tongans had temporarily built a veritable empire.

• Ethnic group in Australia and Oceania
• Tonga
• Indigenous people