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Tonga

Tonga is one of the 193 UN member states, in Polynesia. UN Tourism counted 94,000 international arrivals there in 2019, rarer than 92% of the 199 places with figures, so its stamp in Globestamp is printed in Prism.

Tonga’s stamp in Globestamp
Prism · 50,000 to 500,000 visitors a year
International arrivals
94,000in 2019, UN Tourism
Rank by visitors
184th of 199most visited first
Stamp finish
Prismrarer than 92%
Area
605 km² (234 sq mi)
Population
104,000Natural Earth estimate
Regions
5in Globestamp’s regions layer
Airports
5with scheduled flights

Does Tonga count as a country?

Yes. Tonga is one of the 193 UN member states, so every common list counts it: the UN’s 193, Globestamp’s 250 and the Travelers’ Century Club’s 330.

ListCounts Tonga?
UN member states (193)Yes, a member
Globestamp’s countries and territories (250)Yes
Travelers’ Century Club (330)Yes, as Tonga (Nukualofa)
European UnionNo
Schengen areaNo

The Tonga stamp

Every country in Globestamp has its own stamp, drawn after a real entry stamp. Its finish shows how few travelers get there. Tonga’s is Prism: the full spectrum with glints, the finish for places with 50,000 to 500,000 visitors a year. With 94,000 international arrivals in 2019, Tonga is rarer than 92% of the 199 places with figures. See every stamp on the stamp wall, or the rarest on the least-visited countries.

What counts as a visit to Tonga

The common rule among travelers is that you set foot there: an airport layover usually doesn’t count, and a port where you went ashore does. Globestamp counts Tonga when one of your photos was taken on its ground, or just off its coast; a photo taken from a plane never counts. Photos only at an airport make a transit stamp in lighter ink, counted only if you count layovers. Read more in how to count the countries you’ve visited.

Places in Tonga you can collect

Under the country itself, Globestamp keeps layers of places on your globe, and a photo taken at one ticks it. These are the ones it knows in Tonga to 3 volcanoes.

Volcanoes 3

Kao · Fonualei · Late. On the bucket list →

Botanical gardens 1

'Ene'io Botanical Garden. On the bucket list →

Airports

Tonga has 5 airports with scheduled flights, 2 of them large. Each is a dot on Globestamp’s airports layer, and every flight you log adds to how far you’ve flown (try the flight distance calculator).

5 regions to fill in

Globestamp goes deeper than countries: its regions layer splits Tonga into 5 regions (Natural Earth’s first-level divisions), and each one fills in when a photo was taken there.

All 5

Haʻapai · ʻEua · Niuas · Tongatapu · Vavaʻu

Questions people ask

Is Tonga a country?

Yes. Tonga is one of the 193 UN member states, so every common list counts it: the UN’s 193, Globestamp’s 250 and the Travelers’ Century Club’s 330.

How many tourists visit Tonga a year?

UN Tourism (via the World Bank) counted 94,000 international arrivals in Tonga in 2019, the 184th most of the 199 places with figures. Countries count arrivals in different ways (some include day-trippers and cruise passengers), so treat it as a rough rank rather than an exact number of tourists.

How rare is a Tonga stamp in Globestamp?

It is printed in Prism, the finish for places with 50,000 to 500,000 visitors a year, rarer than 92% of the places with figures. The fewer travelers a place receives, the rarer its finish, from plain Ink to Mythic.

Does Tonga count for the Travelers’ Century Club?

Yes. The Travelers’ Century Club counts it as “Tonga (Nukualofa)”, one of its 330 destinations.

Places as rare as Tonga

Near Tonga

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