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American Samoa

American Samoa is a U.S. territory in the South that lies about 100 km east of its neighboring country of , which is part of the same archipelago.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Pago Pago and Tutuila.

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is the capital city of American Samoa. In the Samoan language it is pronounced "Pahngo-Pahngo".

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is the most populous island in American Samoa, and is home to its capital, , and principal airport. is a fairly small and narrow island, measuring roughly 33 km across and little more than 3 mi from north to south at its widest point.

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is in the US territory of American Samoa. The Samoan village leaders and the US Congress have set aside the finest samples of these islands' land and seascapes as a national park.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Ta’u and Manu’a.

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Taʻū is the largest inhabited island in the in American Samoa and the easternmost volcanic island of the Samoan Islands. In the early 19th century, the island was sometimes called Opoun.

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The Manu'a Islands are a group of 3 islands 110 kilometers east of the main island, Tutuila. They were home to 1,100 people in 2010.

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Olosega and Ofu are twin islands in American Samoa. They are the westernmost of the Manu'a Islands. Ofu and Olosega are very much off the beaten track.

American Samoa

Latitude of center
-14.29° or 14° 17′ 24″ south
Longitude of center
-170.71° or 170° 42′ 36″ west
Population
55,500
Area
77 miles² (199 km²)
Elevation
2,510 feet (765 metres)
Capital
Currency
Dollar (USD)
Phone code
.as
Internet domain
+1-684
Abbreviation
“AS”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 9661365493
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
5880801
Wiki­data ID
Q16641
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“American Samoa” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Samoa Amirika”
  • Afrikaans: “Amerikaans Samoa”
  • Afrikaans: “Amerikaans-Samoa”
  • Afrikaans: “Amerikaanse Samoa”
  • Akan: “Amɛrika Samoa”
  • Albanian: “Samoa Amerikane”
  • Amharic: “አሜሪካዊ ሳሞዓ”
  • Amharic: “የአሜሪካ ሳሞአ”
  • Angika: “अमेरिकी सामोआ”
  • Arabic: “ساموا الأمريكية”
  • Arabic: “ساموا الأمريكيه”
  • Arabic: “ساموا الامريكية”
  • Armenian: “Ամերիկյան Սամոա”
  • Arpitan: “Samoa amèriquènes”
  • Arpitan: “Samoa amèriquênes”
  • Assamese: “আমেৰিকান চামোৱা”
  • Asturian: “Samoa Americana”
  • Azerbaijani: “Amerika Samoası”
  • Balinese: “Samoa Amérika”
  • Bambara: “Samowa amerikani”
  • Bashkir: “Америка Самоаһы”
  • Basque: “Amerikar Samoa”
  • Basque: “Samoa Estatubatuarra”
  • Bavarian: “Amerikanisch-Samoa”
  • Belarusian: “Амерыканскае Самоа”
  • Belarusian: “Амэрыканскае Самоа”
  • Bengali: “আমেরিকান সামোয়া”
  • Bengali: “মার্কিন সামোয়া”
  • Bishnupriya: “আমেরিকান সামোয়া”
  • Bosnian: “Američka Samoa”
  • Breton: “Samoa Amerikan”
  • Bulgarian: “Американска Самоа”
  • Bulgarian: “Американско Самоа”
  • Burmese: “အမေရိကန် စမိုအ”
  • Burmese: “အမေရိကန် ဆမိုးအား”
  • Catalan: “Samoa Americana”
  • Catalan: “Samoa Nord-americana”
  • Cebuano: “American Samoa”
  • Central Bikol: “Amerikanong Samoa”
  • Central Kurdish: “ساموای ئەمریکا”
  • Chavacano: “American Samoa”
  • Chechen: “Американ Самоа”
  • Chechen: “Америкин Самоа”
  • Cherokee: “ᎠᎺᎵᎧ ᏌᎼᎠ”
  • Chinese: “Bí-kok léng Samoa”
  • Chinese: “东萨摩亚”
  • Chinese: “美属萨摩亚”
  • Chinese: “美屬薩摩亞”
  • Cornish: “Samoa Amerikan”
  • Corsican: “Samoa Americani”
  • Croatian: “Američka Samoa”
  • Czech: “Americká Samoa”
  • Danish: “Amerikansk Samoa”
  • Dhivehi: “އެމެރިކަން ސަމޯއާ”
  • Dutch: “Amerikaans Samoa”
  • Dutch: “Amerikaans-Samoa”
  • Dutch: “AS”
  • Dutch: “ASM”
  • Dzongkha: “ས་མོ་ཨ་ཡུ་ཨེས་ཨེ་མངའ་ཁོངས”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ساموا الامريكيه”
  • Esperanto: “AS”
  • Esperanto: “Orienta Samoo”
  • Esperanto: “Teritorio Usona Samoo”
  • Esperanto: “Usona Samoo”
  • Estonian: “Ameerika Samoa”
  • Ewe: “Amerika Samoa nutome”
  • Faroese: “Amerikanska Samoa”
  • Faroese: “Amerikanska Sámoa”
  • Fiji Hindi: “American Samoa”
  • Finnish: “Amerikan Samoa”
  • French: “Samoa américaines”
  • French: “Territoire des Samoa américaines”
  • Fulah: “Samowa Amerik”
  • Gagauz: “Amerikan Samoa”
  • Galician: “Samoa Americana”
  • Ganda: “Samowa omumerika”
  • Georgian: “ამერიკის სამოა”
  • Georgian: “ამერიკული სამოა”
  • German: “Amerikanisch-Samoa”
  • Greek: “Αμερικανική Σαμόα”
  • Guarani: “Amérika Samóa”
  • Guarani: “Samóa Amérika pegua”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Samoa amérikenn”
  • Gujarati: “અમેરિકન સમોઆ”
  • Gujarati: “અમેરીકન સમોઆ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Mî-koet liâng Samoa”
  • Hausa: “Samowa Ta Amurka”
  • Hawaiian: “Sāmoa ʻAmelika”
  • Hebrew: “סמואה האמריקנית”
  • Hindi: “अमेरिकी समोआ”
  • Hungarian: “Amerikai Szamoa”
  • Icelandic: “Amerísku Samóaeyjar”
  • Icelandic: “Bandaríska Samóa”
  • Ido: “Usana Samoa”
  • Igbo: “American Samoa”
  • Indonesian: “Samoa Amerika”
  • Indonesian: “Samoa Timur”
  • Indonesian: “Teritori Samoa Amerika”
  • Interlingua: “Samoa american”
  • Irish: “Samó Meiriceánach”
  • Irish: “Samó Mheiriceá”
  • Italian: “Samoa Americane”
  • Japanese: “アメリカ合衆国領サモア”
  • Japanese: “アメリカ領サモア”
  • Japanese: “米国領サモア”
  • Japanese: “米領サモア”
  • Javanese: “Samoa Amerika”
  • Javanese: “Samoa Amérika”
  • Kannada: “ಅಮೇರಿಕನ್ ಸಮೋವಾ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Amerika Samoası”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Amerikalıq Samoa”
  • Kashmiri: “اَمریٖکَن سَموا”
  • Kazakh: “Америка Самоасы”
  • Kazakh: “Америкалық Самоа”
  • Kazakh: “Американ Самоасы”
  • Khmer: “សាម័រ អាមេរិកាំង”
  • Kikuyu: “Samoa ya Marekani”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Samowa Nyamerika”
  • Kirghiz: “Америка Самоасы”
  • Kirghiz: “Америкалык Самоа”
  • Korean: “미국령 사모아”
  • Korean: “아메리칸 사모아”
  • Korean: “아메리칸사모아”
  • Kurdish: “Samoaya Amerîkanî”
  • Kurdish: “ساموای ئەمەریکایی”
  • Ladin: “Samoa Americana”
  • Lao: “ຊາມົວອາເມຣິກາ”
  • Lao: “ອາເມຣິກາ ຊາມົວ”
  • Latin: “Samoa Americana”
  • Latvian: “Amerikāņu Samoa”
  • Latvian: “ASV Samoa”
  • Ligurian: “Samoa Americann-e”
  • Ligurian: “Samöa Americann-e”
  • Limburgan: “Amerikaans Samoa”
  • Lingala: “Samoa ya Ameriki”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Samoa American”
  • Lithuanian: “Amerikos Samoa”
  • Low German: “Amerikaansch-Samoa”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Samoa wa Ameriki”
  • Luxembourgish: “Amerikanesch-Samoa”
  • Luxembourgish: “US Samoa”
  • Macedonian: “Американска Самоа”
  • Malagasy: “Samoa amerikanina”
  • Malay: “American Samoa”
  • Malay: “Samoa Amerika”
  • Malayalam: “അമേരിക്കൻ സമോവ”
  • Malayalam: “അമേരിക്കന്‍ സാമോവ”
  • Maltese: “is-Samoa Amerikana”
  • Maltese: “it-Territorju tas-Samoa Amerikana”
  • Maltese: “Samoa Amerikana”
  • Maori: “Hāmoa Marikena”
  • Marathi: “अमेरिकन सामोआ”
  • Mazanderani: “آمریکا ساموآ”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Mī-guók liāng Samoa”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bí-kok Samoa”
  • Minangkabau: “Samoa Amerika”
  • Mingrelian: “ამერიკაშ სამოა”
  • Moksha: “Америконь Самоа”
  • Mongolian: “Америкийн Самоа”
  • Nepali: “अमेरिकी समोआ”
  • Nepali: “अमेरिकी सामोआ”
  • Newari: “अमेरिकन सामोआ”
  • North Ndebele: “Samoa ye Amelika”
  • Northern Frisian: “Amerikoonsk Samoa”
  • Northern Sami: “Amerihká Samoa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Amerikansk Samoa”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Amerikansk Samoa”
  • Norwegian: “Amerikansk Samoa”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Samoa Americana”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Samòa americana”
  • Oriya: “ଆମେରିକାନ୍ ସାମୋଆ”
  • Oriya: “ଆମେରିକୀୟ ସମୋଆ”
  • Ossetian: “Америкæйы Самоæ”
  • Pampanga: “American Samoa”
  • Pampanga: “Amerika Samoa”
  • Panjabi: “ਅਮਰੀਕੀ ਸਮੋਆ”
  • Panjabi: “ਅਮੈਰੀਕਨ ਸਮੋਆ”
  • Papiamento: “Samoa merikano”
  • Papiamento: “Samoa Merikano”
  • Persian: “ساموآی آمریکا”
  • Persian: “ساموآی امریکا”
  • Persian: “ساموای امریکا”
  • Picard: “Samoa anméricaines”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Merikan Samoa”
  • Polish: “Samoa Amerykańskie”
  • Portuguese: “Samoa Americana”
  • Pushto: “امريکايي ساموا”
  • Pushto: “امریکایی ساماوا”
  • Quechua: “Amirika Samwa”
  • Quechua: “Samoa Americana”
  • Romanian: “Samoa Americană”
  • Romansh: “Samoa Americana”
  • Rundi: “Samowa nyamerika”
  • Russian: “Американское Самоа”
  • Russian: “Восточное Самоа”
  • Rusyn: “Америцька Самоа”
  • Samoan: “Amerika Sāmoa”
  • Sango: “Samöa tî Amerîka”
  • Sardinian: “Samoa Americanas”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Samoa Aimearaganach”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Samotha na h-Aimeireaga”
  • Serbian: “Америчка Самоа”
  • Serbian: “Источна Самоа”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Američka Samoa”
  • Shan: “သႃႇမူဝ်းဝႃႇ ၶွင် ဢမႄႇရိၵၢၼ်ႇ”
  • Shan: “သႃႇမူဝ်းဝႃႇ ၶွင်ဢမေႇရိၵၼ်ႇ”
  • Shona: “American Samoa”
  • Shona: “Samoa ye Amerika”
  • Sicilian: “Samoa Miricana”
  • Sindhi: “آمريڪي ساموا”
  • Sinhala: “ඇමරිකානු සැමෝවා”
  • Sinhala: “ඇමරිකානු සැමෝවාව”
  • Slovak: “Americká Samoa”
  • Slovak: “Teritórium Americkej Samoy”
  • Slovenian: “Ameriška Samoa”
  • Slovenian: “Ozemlje Ameriška Samoa”
  • Somali: “Samowa Ameerika”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آمریکا سامواسی”
  • Spanish: “Samoa Americana”
  • Spanish: “Samoa de los Estados Unidos”
  • Spanish: “Samoa Estadounidense”
  • Spanish: “Territorio de Samoa Americana”
  • Sundanese: “Samoa Amérika”
  • Swahili: “Samoa ya Marekani”
  • Swedish: “Amerikanska Samoa”
  • Swiss German: “Amerikanisch-Samoa”
  • Tagalog: “Samoang Amerikano”
  • Tajik: “Самоаи Америка”
  • Tajik: “Самоаи Америкоӣ”
  • Tajik: “Самоаи Амрико”
  • Tamil: “அமெரிக்க சமோவா”
  • Tatar: “Америка Самоасы”
  • Telugu: “అమెరికను సమోవా”
  • Telugu: “అమెరికన్ సమోవా”
  • Thai: “อเมริกันซามัว”
  • Tigrinya: “ኣሜሪካ ሳሞኣ”
  • Tigrinya: “የአሜሪካ ሳሞአ”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Haʻamoa ʻAmelika”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Haʻamoa-ʻAmelika”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Amerikanisch-Samoa”
  • Turkish: “Amerikan Samoası”
  • Turkmen: “Amerikan Samoasy”
  • Uighur: “ئامېرىكا ساموئا”
  • Uighur: “ئامېرىكىغا قاراشلىق ساموئا”
  • Ukrainian: “Американське Самоа”
  • Ukrainian: “Східне Самоа”
  • Urdu: “امریکی ساموآ”
  • Urdu: “امریکی ساموا”
  • Urdu: “امریکی سمووا”
  • Uzbek: “Amerika Samoasi”
  • Uzbek: “Sharqiy Samoa”
  • Venetian: “Samoa Americana”
  • Vietnamese: “Đảo Somoa thuộc Mỹ”
  • Vietnamese: “Samoa thuộc Mỹ”
  • Volapük: “Samovuäns Lamerikänik”
  • Võro: “Ameeriga Samoa”
  • Waray (Philippines): “American Samoa”
  • Welsh: “Samoa America”
  • Welsh: “Samoa Americanaidd”
  • Western Frisian: “Amerikaansk Samoa”
  • Western Frisian: “Amerikaansk-Samoa”
  • Western Frisian: “Amerikaansk-Samoä”
  • Western Panjabi: “امریکی ساموا”
  • Wolof: “Samoa gu Aamerig”
  • Wolof: “Samowa bu Amerig”
  • Wu Chinese: “美属萨摩亚”
  • Yiddish: “אמעריקאנישער סאמאא”
  • Yoruba: “Sàmóà Amẹ́ríkà”
  • Yoruba: “Sámóánì ti Orílẹ́ède Àméríkà”
  • Yue Chinese: “美屬薩摩亞”
  • Zulu: “i-American Samoa”
  • “Ameeriga Samoa”
  • “AS”
  • “ASA”
  • “ASM”
  • “US-AS”

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