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Can you locate all 16 states of Palau?
Can you locate all 16 regions of New Zealand?
Can you locate all 14 provinces of Fiji, and Rotuma?
Can you locate all 6 states and 2 territories of Australia?
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Tonga is a Polynesian kingdom of about 170 islands spread over roughly 800 kilometres of the South Pacific, east of Fiji. The map is worth knowing on its own terms: five divisions cover the whole chain, and each is an archipelago in its own right, so the quiz is less about borders than about which cluster of islands a name belongs to.
Tonga's five divisions, which together cover every island in the kingdom. The largest island, Tongatapu, is in the south and holds the capital Nuku'alofa. Its neighbour 'Eua is a single raised island to the south east. Ha'apai is a long scatter of low coral islands in the middle of the chain, Vava'u a tight cluster of islands around a sheltered sound further north, and the Niuas are three distant islands almost at the latitude of Samoa.
The groups are not an official classification. They are the south and the rest of the chain, and a way to learn the map a piece at a time.
Tongatapu is the biggest island and the political centre, with the capital on its north coast. The division also takes in the reefs and islets around it.
'Eua lies a short way south east of Tongatapu. It is one island rather than an archipelago, and the only division you can find by its outline alone.
The Niuas are three islands far to the north of the rest of the kingdom, and they share a division because they are too distant to belong to any other.
Five: Tongatapu, 'Eua, Ha'apai, Vava'u and the Niuas.
Each division is an archipelago, so its outline is a handful of small islands spread over a wide area of ocean.
Not in a way this game uses. The groups are the south and the central and northern islands, and they will not match every list you find.
