Events in the year 2022 in

Tonga Tonga (, ; ), officially the Kingdom of Tonga ( to, Puleʻanga Fakatuʻi ʻo Tonga), is a Polynesian country and archipelago. The country has 171 islands – of which 45 are inhabited. Its total surface area is about , scattered over in ...

Incumbents

Monarch A monarch is a head of stateWebster's II New College DictionarMonarch Houghton Mifflin. Boston. 2001. p. 707. Life tenure, for life or until abdication, and therefore the head of state of a monarchy. A monarch may exercise the highest authority ...

: Tupou VI *

Prime Minister A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister is not ...

Siaosi Sovaleni Siaosi ‘Ofakivahafolau Sovaleni (born 28 February 1970) is a Tongan politician who has served as the Prime Minister of Tonga since 2021. He has previously served as a Cabinet Minister, and from 2014 to 2017, he was Deputy Prime Minister of To ...

Events

Ongoing — COVID-19 pandemic in Tonga * 14 January – 2022 Hunga Tonga eruption and tsunami: The

Hunga Tonga ''Hunga'' is a genus of plants in the family Chrysobalanaceae, described as a genus in 1979. They are native to New Guinea and New Caledonia. List of species # ''Hunga cordata'' Prance - New Caledonia # ''Hunga gerontogea'' (Schltr.) Prance - ...

, an undersea

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, erupts, sending ash and steam 20 kilometers into the air. The

government of Tonga The politics of Tonga take place in a framework of a constitutional monarchy, whereby the King is the Head of State and the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces. Tonga's Prime Minister is currently appointed by the King from among the members ...

issues a

tsunami warning A tsunami warning system (TWS) is used to detect tsunamis in advance and issue the warnings to prevent loss of life and damage to property. It is made up of two equally important components: a network of sensors to detect tsunamis and a communica ...

and advises people in all

islands of Tonga The following list gives all islands and cities (villages and hamlets) in Tonga in alphabetical order with many local areas and nicknames as well. Coordinates are given for the centre of each place. All place names are given in the Tongan language ...

to avoid the coasts. * 15 January –

King King is the title given to a male monarch in a variety of contexts. The female equivalent is queen, which title is also given to the consort of a king. *In the context of prehistory, antiquity and contemporary indigenous peoples, the tit ...

Tupou VI is evacuated from the

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as ashfall from the

eruption destroys homes and causes the evacuation of citizens to higher ground. * 16 January –

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shows that most of the volcanic island was destroyed by the eruption. * 2 February –

enters a nationwide lockdown after the country reported its first locally transmitted COVID-19 cases. *

Deaths

* 10 June –

Viliami Hingano Viliami Manuopangai Faka’osiula Hingano (1975 – 10 June 2022) was a Tongan politician and Cabinet Minister. Biography Hingano ran in the 2010 Tongan general election but was unsuccessful. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ton ...

, 47, politician, MP (2014–2017, since 2021), governor of

Haʻapai Haʻapai is a group of islands, islets, reefs, and shoals in the central part of Tonga. It has a combined land area of . The Tongatapu island group lies to its south, and the Vavaʻu group lies to its north. Seventeen of the Haʻapai islands are ...

(2021) * 7 September –

Willie Los'e William Keith Los'e (22 July 1967 – 7 September 2022) was a n rugby union player who played as a lock. After retiring from playing, he worked as a radio host and TV commentator. Early life Los'e was born on 22 July 1967, the son of Kuini a ...

, 55, rugby union player (

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, North Harbour, Tonga national team) and broadcaster. * 27 October – Semisi Fakahau, 74, politician, MP (since 2014).

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