Facts and Figures
Official Name: Kingdom of Tonga	Country Profile
Capital City: Nuku'alofa	Medicinal Plant Checklist
Languages: Tongan, English	References
Official Currency: Pa'anga	The Ethnobotany of Tonga: The Plants, Their Tongan Names, and Their Uses
Religions: Christian, others	Links
Population: 110,500 (2000)	World Conservation Monitoring Centre
Indigenous Population: 100,000	1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants
Land Area: 720 sq km (278 sq miles)	Summer Institute of Linguistics - Ethnologue, 13th Ed
Number of Indigenous languages: 4	CIA Factsheet
Native Vascular plant species: 463	The Lonely Planet
Endemic Species: 25	Tonga Online
% Species endemism: 5.4	Tongatapu.net
Total no. threatened: 2	iTonga.net
% Species threatened: 0.4	CNN Country Watch - Tonga
Medicinal plant estimate: 108	CDC Health Information
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