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TongaVatican City is a city-state within Italy and the seat of Roman Catholicism
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With its 106,440 people, Tonga is the 189th largest country in the world by population. It is the 185th largest country in the world by area with 747 square kilometers.
Tonga - unique among Pacific nations - never completely lost its indigenous governance. The archipelagos of "The Friendly Islands" were united into a Polynesian kingdom in 1845. Tonga became a constitutional monarchy in 1875 and a British protectorate in 1900; it withdrew from the protectorate and joined the Commonwealth of Nations in 1970. Tonga remains the only monarchy in the Pacific.
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