Samoa
Samoa is an island nation in the South Pacific Ocean, part of Polynesia. The country has two main islands, which have narrow coastal plains with volcanic, rocky, rugged mountains in the interior.Tap on the map to travel |
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Apia
Photo: Simon sees, CC BY 2.0.
Apia is the capital of Samoa. It is on the northern coast of the island of Upolu and has a population of 42,000.
Upolu
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Upolu is the most important of Samoa's islands. The Region of Upolu also includes all other islands of the country apart from the so-called "big" island of Savaii.
Savaii
Photo: Teinesavaii, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Savaiʻi is the largest and highest island both in Samoa and in the Samoan Islands chain.
Samoa
- Type: Country with 193,000 residents
- Description: sovereign state made up of six islands in the Pacific Ocean
- Languages: Samoan and English
- Neighbors: United States
- Categories: sovereign state, island country and locality
- Location: Polynesia, Oceania
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Latitude of centre
-13.9394° or 13° 56' 22" southLongitude of centre
-171.7383° or 171° 44' 18" westPopulation
193,000Area
2,944 km² (1,137 miles²)Capital
ApiaCurrency
Tala (WST)Phone code
.wsInternet domain
685OpenStreetMap ID
node 1529444079OpenStreetMap Feature
place=countryGeoNames ID
4034894Wikidata ID
Q683Samoa Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Самоа
- Achinese: Samoa
- Afar: Samoa
- Afrikaans: Samoa
- Akan: Samoa
- Albanian: Samoa
- Amharic: Samoa
- Amharic: ሳሞአ
- Amharic: ሳሞዓ
- Amis: Samoa
- Angika: सामोआ
- Arabic: Samoa
- Arabic: ساموا
- Aragonese: Samoa
- Armenian: Արեւմտեան Սամոա
- Armenian: Սամոա
- Arpitan: Samoa
- Assamese: চামোৱা
- Asturian: Samoa
- Atayal: Samoa
- Avaric: Samoa
- Azerbaijani: Samoa
- Balinese: Samoa
- Bambara: Samoa
- Bambara: Samowa
- Banjar: Samoa
- Bashkir: Самоа
- Basque: Samoa
- Belarusian: Самоа
- Bengali: সামোয়া
- Bhojpuri: समोआ
- Bishnupriya: সামোয়া
- Bislama: Samoa
- Bosnian: Samoa
- Breton: Samoa
- Bulgarian: Самоа
- Burmese: ဆမိုးအား
- Burmese: ဆမိုးအားနိုင်ငံ
- Catalan: Estat Independent de Samoa
- Catalan: Samoa
- Cebuano: Samoa
- Cebuano: Samowa
- Central Bikol: Samoa
- Central Kurdish: ساموا
- Chavacano: Samoa
- Chechen: Самоа
- Cherokee: ᏌᎼᎠ
- Cheyenne: Samoa
- Chinese: Samoa
- Chinese: 萨摩亚 / 薩摩亞
- Chinese: 萨摩亚
- Chinese: 萨摩亚独立国
- Chinese: 薩摩亞
- Cornish: Samoa
- Crimean Tatar: Samoa
- Croatian: Samoa
- Czech: Samoa
- Dagbani: Western Samoa
- Danish: Samoa
- Dhivehi: ސަމޯއާ
- Dimli (individual language): Samoa
- Dotyali: समोआ
- Dutch: Samoa
- Dutch: WS
- Dutch: WSM
- Dzongkha: ས་མོ་ཨ
- Eastern Mari: Самоа
- Egyptian Arabic: ساموا
- English: Independent State of Samoa
- English: SAM
- English: Sāmoa
- English: Western Samoa
- English: ws
- Esperanto: Okcidenta Samoo
- Esperanto: Samoo
- Esperanto: Sendependa Ŝtato Samoo
- Esperanto: WS
- Estonian: Samoa
- Estonian: Samoa Iseseisvusriik
- Ewe: Samoa nutome
- Extremaduran: Samoa
- Faroese: Samoa
- Faroese: Sámoa
- Fiji Hindi: Samoa
- Finnish: Samoa
- Finnish: Samoan itsenäinen valtio
- French: Samoa
- French: Samoa occidentales
- French: WS
- French: l’État indépendant des Samoa
- Friulian: Samoe
- Fulah: Samowaa
- Gagauz: Samoa
- Galician: Samoa
- Ganda: Samowa
- Georgian: სამოა
- German: Samoa
- German: Unabhängiger Staat Samoa
- German: West-Samoa
- German: Westsamoa
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: The Solomon Islands
- Goan Konkani: Samoa
- Goan Konkani: सामोआ
- Greek: Σαμόα
- Guarani: Samóa
- Guianese Creole French: Samoa
- Gujarati: સમોઆ
- Haitian: Samoa
- Haitian: Samowa
- Hakka Chinese: Samoa
- Hausa: Samoa
- Hausa: Sāmoa Komohana
- Hawaiian: Sāmoa Komohana
- Hebrew: סמואה
- Hindi: समोआ
- Hungarian: Samoa
- Hungarian: Szamoa
- Hungarian: Szamoai Független Állam
- Icelandic: Samóa
- Ido: Samoa
- Igbo: Samoa
- Iloko: Samoa
- Inari Sami: Samoa
- Inari Sami: Samoa jiečânâs staatâ
- Indonesian: Samoa
- Interlingua: Samoa
- Interlingue: Samoa
- Inuktitut: ᖕᒥᓵᒨ
- Irish: Samó
- Italian: Samoa
- Italian: Samoa Occidentali
- Italian: WS
- Italian: WSM
- Jamaican Creole English: Samoa
- Japanese: サモア
- Japanese: サモア独立国
- Japanese: 西サモア
- Javanese: Samoa
- Kalaallisut: Samoa
- Kalmyk: Самомудин Орн
- Kannada: ಸಮೋಅ
- Kannada: ಸಮೋವಾ
- Kara-Kalpak: Samoa
- Kashmiri: سیمووا
- Kazakh: Самоа
- Khmer: សាម័រ
- Kikuyu: Samoa
- Kinyarwanda: Samowa y’Uburengerazuba
- Kirghiz: Самоа
- Korean: 사모아
- Kotava: Samoa
- Kurdish: Samoa
- Ladin: Samoa
- Lao: Samoa
- Lao: ຊາມົວ
- Latin: Samoa
- Latvian: Rietumsamoa
- Latvian: Samoa
- Ligurian: Samoa
- Limburgan: Samoa
- Lingala: Samoa
- Lingua Franca Nova: Samoa
- Literary Chinese: 薩摩亞
- Lithuanian: Samoa
- Livvi: Samoa
- Lombard: Samoa
- Low German: Samoa
- Lower Sorbian: Samoa
- Luba-Katanga: Samoa
- Luxembourgish: Samoa
- Macedonian: Самоа
- Malagasy: Samoa
- Malagasy: Samôa
- Malay: Samoa
- Malayalam: സമോവ
- Maltese: Samoa
- Maltese: l-Istat Indipendenti ta’ Samoa
- Manipuri: ꯁꯥꯃꯣꯑꯥ
- Manx: Samoa
- Maori: Hamoa
- Maori: Hāmoa
- Maori: Hāmoa ki te Uru
- Marathi: सामोआ
- Marathi: सामोआ
- Min Dong Chinese: Samoa
- Min Nan Chinese: Samoa
- Minangkabau: Samoa
- Mingrelian: სამოა
- Mongolian: Самоа
- Mongolian: ꯁꯥꯃꯣꯑꯥ
- Moroccan Arabic: صاموا
- Nauru: Tamoa
- Navajo: Ndaʼałʼeełí Dineʼé Bikéyah
- Nepali: सामोआ
- Newari: सामोआ
- North Ndebele: Samowa
- Northern Frisian: Samoa
- Northern Sami: Samoa
- Northern Sami: Samoa iehčanas stáhta
- Norwegian: Samoa
- Norwegian Bokmål: Den selvstendige staten Samoa
- Norwegian Bokmål: Samoa
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Samoa
- Occitan (post 1500): Samoa
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Samoa
- Oriya: ପାଶ୍ଚାତ୍ୟ ସାମୋଆ
- Oriya: ସମୋଆ
- Oriya: ସାମୋଆ
- Oriya: ସାମୋଆ ସାଧାରଣତନ୍ତ୍ର
- Ossetian: Самоæ
- Pali: समोआ
- Pampanga: Samoa
- Panjabi: ਸਮੋਆ
- Panjabi: ਸਾਮੋਆ
- Papiamento: Samoa
- Persian: ساموآ
- Persian: ساموا
- Piemontese: Samoa
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: Samoa
- Polish: Samoa
- Polish: Samoa Zachodnie
- Portuguese: Samoa
- Pushto: ساماوا
- Pushto: ساموا
- Quechua: Samoa
- Quechua: Samwa
- Rakhine: ဆမိုးအားနိုင်ငံ
- Romanian: Samoa
- Romansh: Samoa
- Rundi: Samowa
- Russia Buriat: Самоа
- Russian: Независимое Государство Самоа
- Russian: Самоа
- Sakizaya: Samoa
- Samoan: Malo Sa’oloto Tuto’atasi o Samoa
- Samoan: Samoa
- Samoan: Sāmoa
- Samogitian: Samuoa
- Sango: Samoäa
- Sanskrit: समोआ
- Sardinian: Samoa
- Scots: Samoa
- Scottish Gaelic: Samoa
- Scottish Gaelic: Samotha
- Serbian: Самоа
- Serbo-Croatian: Samoa
- Shan: မိူင်းသႃႇမူဝ်းဝႃႇ
- Shona: Samoa
- Sicilian: Samoa
- Silesian: Samoa
- Sindhi: ساموا
- Sinhala: ස්වාධීන සැමෝවා රාජ්යය
- Sinhala: සැමෝවා
- Skolt Sami: Samoa
- Skolt Sami: Samoa jiõččnaž riikk
- Skolt Sami: Samoa jiõččnaž valdia
- Slovak: Samoa
- Slovak: Samojský nezávislý štát
- Slovenian: Samoa
- Somali: Samoowa
- South Azerbaijani: ساموا آداسی
- Spanish: Estado Independiente de Samoa
- Spanish: Samoa
- Sundanese: Samoa
- Swahili: Samoa
- Swedish: Samoa
- Swedish: Självständiga staten Samoa
- Swiss German: Samoa
- Tagalog: Samoa
- Tahitian: Hāmoa
- Tajik: Самоа
- Tamil: சமோவா
- Taroko: Samoa
- Tatar: Самоа
- Telugu: సమోవా
- Thai: ซามัว
- Thai: ประเทศซามัว
- Tibetan: ནུ་བ་ས་མོ་འ།
- Tibetan: ས་མོའ།
- Tigrinya: ሳሞአ
- Tok Pisin: Samoa
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): Haʻamoa
- Tosk Albanian: Samoa
- Tunisian Arabic: ساموا
- Turkish: Bağımsız Samoa Devleti
- Turkish: Samoa
- Turkmen: Samoa
- Udmurt: Самоа
- Uighur: ساموئا
- Ukrainian: Самоа
- Upper Sorbian: Samoa
- Urdu: ساموآ
- Urdu: سامووا
- Uzbek: Samoa
- Venetian: Samoa
- Veps: Samoa
- Vietnamese: Samoa
- Vietnamese: Xa-moa (Samoa)
- Vietnamese: Xa-moa
- Volapük: Samovuäns
- Võro: Samoa
- Wallisian: Ha'amoa
- Waray (Philippines): Samoa
- Welsh: Samoa
- Western Armenian: Արեւմտեան Սամոա
- Western Frisian: Samoa
- Western Frisian: Samoä
- Western Mari: Самоа
- Western Panjabi: ساموآ
- Western Panjabi: سموا
- Wolof: Samowa
- Wolof: Samowaa
- Wu Chinese: 薩摩亞
- Xhosa: Samowa
- Yakut: Самоа
- Yiddish: סאַמאאַ
- Yoruba: Samọ
- Yoruba: Sàmóà
- Yue Chinese: 薩摩亞
- Zeeuws: Samoa
- Zhuang: Samoa
- Zulu: i-Samoa
- Malo Sa'oloto Tuto'atasi o Sāmoa
- Samoa i Sisifo
- ma Samowa
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