Metroji clue #119

Nuku'alofa in five emoji

Tonga

The capital of the only Pacific island nation never brought under colonial rule. It is still a kingdom, and the monarchy is not ceremonial in the way people assume.

What each emoji refers to

Humpbacks calve in these waters between July and October, and Tonga is one of the few places licensed to let you swim with them.
Tonga signed a treaty of friendship with Britain rather than becoming a colony, and kept its own royal line throughout.
The sipi tau is performed before matches, and Tongan players turn up in professional squads worldwide.
Garlands are made fresh and worn, then given away rather than kept.
Root crops and coconut do most of the feeding. Squash exports to Japan were a brief and strange economic era.

Nuku'alofa at a glance

Country
Tonga
Coordinates
21.14Β° S, 175.20Β° W
First played
Also accepted
Nukualofa

Nearest cities in the game

Distances are great-circle, the same measure the game reports after a wrong guess. The arrow is the direction you would need to travel from Nuku'alofa.

City Distance Direction
SuvaFiji 740 km
ApiaSamoa 890 km
FunafutiTuvalu 1,530 km
Port VilaVanuatu 1,770 km
AucklandNew Zealand 2,000 km
WellingtonNew Zealand 2,430 km

Today's city is a different one

Metroji picks a new city every day at midnight, wherever you are. Everyone gets the same one, so scores are comparable.

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