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Apia

Apia is the capital of . It is on the northern coast of the island of and has a population of 42,000. As with most Pacific Island capitals, Apia is a little shabby and run down.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Immaculate Conception Cathedral, Apia and Falemata’aga.

Church
The Immaculate Conception Cathedral is the Catholic cathedral in Apia, the capital of , an insular country in Oceania. It suffered damage in the earthquake of 2009, and has undergone restoration and extension.

Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Falemata'aga is the national museum of . It is housed in a former school which was built by the German colonial administration.

Sports venue
is a multi-function sports complex located in Apia, the capital of . Primarily used for rugby union events, is the home stadium of the Samoa national rugby union team, Manu Samoa.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lepea and Mulinuʻu.

Village
Photo: Teinesavaii, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a village on the island of in . The picturesque settlement of round Samoan houses built in a concentric pattern in large open grounds is situated 5 minutes drive west of the capital Apia on the north central coast of the island.

Village
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is a small village situated on a tiny peninsula on island in . It became the site of the colonial administration in Samoa in the 1870s and continues to be the site for the Parliament of Samoa.

Apia

Latitude
-13.8321° or 13° 49′ 56″ south
Longitude
-171.752° or 171° 45′ 7″ west
Population
37,700
Elevation
30 feet (9 metres)
IATA airport code
APW
United Nations Location Code
WS APW
Open location code
52RC569X+55
Open­Street­Map ID
node 388977545
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4035413
Wiki­data ID
Q36260
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Apia” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Apia”
  • Albanian: “Apia”
  • Amharic: “አፒያ”
  • Arabic: “أبيا”
  • Arabic: “ابيا”
  • Armenian: “Ապիա”
  • Asturian: “Apia”
  • Azerbaijani: “Apia”
  • Balinese: “Apia”
  • Basque: “Apia”
  • Belarusian: “Апія”
  • Bengali: “আপিয়া”
  • Bosnian: “Apia”
  • Breton: “Apia”
  • Bulgarian: “Апия”
  • Burmese: “အပီယာမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Apia”
  • Cebuano: “Apia (ulohang dakbayan sa Samoa)”
  • Cebuano: “Apia”
  • Chechen: “Апиа”
  • Chinese: “Apia”
  • Chinese: “阿庇亞”
  • Chinese: “阿皮亚”
  • Chinese: “阿皮亞”
  • Chinese: “阿皮亞市”
  • Croatian: “Apia”
  • Czech: “Apia”
  • Danish: “Apia”
  • Dutch: “Apia”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ابيا”
  • Esperanto: “Apio”
  • Estonian: “Apia”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Apia”
  • Fijian: “Apia”
  • Finnish: “Apia”
  • French: “Apia”
  • French: “Faleolo”
  • Galician: “Apia”
  • Georgian: “აპია”
  • German: “Apia”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Apia”
  • Greek: “΄Aπια”
  • Greek: “Απία”
  • Greek: “Άπια”
  • Guarani: “Apia”
  • Gujarati: “આપિયા”
  • Haitian: “Apiya”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Apia”
  • Hausa: “Apia”
  • Hawaiian: “Apia”
  • Hebrew: “אפיה”
  • Hindi: “आपिया”
  • Hindi: “एपिया”
  • Hungarian: “Apia”
  • Icelandic: “Apía”
  • Ido: “Apia”
  • Indonesian: “Apia”
  • Interlingue: “Apia”
  • Irish: “Apia”
  • Italian: “Apia”
  • Japanese: “アピア”
  • Kannada: “ಅಪಿಯಾ”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Апиа”
  • Kazakh: “Апиа”
  • Kirghiz: “Апиа”
  • Korean: “아피아”
  • Kotava: “Apia”
  • Latin: “Apia”
  • Latvian: “Apia”
  • Latvian: “Apija”
  • Ligurian: “Apia”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Apia”
  • Lithuanian: “Apija”
  • Lombard: “Apia”
  • Luxembourgish: “Apia”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Apia”
  • Macedonian: “Апија”
  • Malagasy: “Apia”
  • Malay: “Apia”
  • Malayalam: “Apia”
  • Malayalam: “അപിയ”
  • Maori: “Apia”
  • Marathi: “आपिया”
  • Marathi: “एपिया”
  • Mazanderani: “آپیا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Apia”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Apia”
  • Minangkabau: “Apia”
  • Mingrelian: “აპია”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “أپيا”
  • Nauru: “Apia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Apia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Apia”
  • Norwegian: “Apia”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Apia”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Eapiæ”
  • Ossetian: “Апиæ”
  • Ossetian: “Апиа”
  • Panjabi: “ਆਪੀਆ”
  • Persian: “آپیا”
  • Persian: “اپیا”
  • Piemontese: “Apia”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Apya”
  • Polish: “Apia”
  • Portuguese: “Apia”
  • Pushto: “اپیا”
  • Romanian: “Apia”
  • Russian: “Апиа”
  • Samoan: “Apia”
  • Sardinian: “Àpia”
  • Scots: “Apia”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Apia”
  • Serbian: “Апиа”
  • Serbian: “Апија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Apia”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Apija”
  • Shona: “Apia”
  • Silesian: “Apia”
  • Sinhala: “අපියා, සැමෝවා”
  • Sinhala: “අප්ලා”
  • Slovak: “Apia”
  • Slovenian: “Apia”
  • Spanish: “Apia”
  • Swahili: “Apia, Samoa”
  • Swahili: “Apia”
  • Swedish: “Apia”
  • Tagalog: “Apia”
  • Tahitian: “Apia”
  • Tajik: “Апиа”
  • Tamil: “ஆப்பியா”
  • Tatar: “Апиа”
  • Telugu: “ఆపియా”
  • Thai: “Apia”
  • Thai: “อาปีอา”
  • Tibetan: “ཨ་པི་ཡ་”
  • Tibetan: “ཨ་པི་ཡ།”
  • Tigrinya: “ኣፕያ”
  • Tok Pisin: “Apia”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Apia”
  • Turkish: “Apia”
  • Ukrainian: “Апіа”
  • Urdu: “آپیا”
  • Uzbek: “Apia”
  • Veps: “Apia”
  • Vietnamese: “Apia”
  • Volapük: “Apia”
  • Võro: “Apia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Apia”
  • Welsh: “Apia”
  • Western Frisian: “Apia”
  • Western Mari: “Апиа”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿皮亚”
  • Yakut: “Апиа”
  • Yue Chinese: “阿皮亞”
  • Zulu: “i-Apia”
  • “Apia”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Apia”. Photo: Simon sees, CC BY 2.0.