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 Questions about Tongan Medicinal Plants Contact - Regional Coordinator: oceania@cieer.org