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  1. Coral island in the S Pacific, W of the Cook
  2. Islands; overseas territory of New Zealand.
  3. area 260 sq km/100 sq mi towns port Alofi
  4. products coconuts, passion fruit, honey
  5. population (1988) 2,200 history inhabited by
  6. warriors who stopped Capt Cook from landing
  7. 1774; British protectorate 1900; annexed by
  8. New Zealand 1901; attained self-government in
  9. free association with New Zealand (with which
  10. there is common citizenship) 1974
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