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Samoa

Samoa is an island nation in the , part of . It is an archipelago of 10 islands with ancient cultures, dramatic landscapes, and a variety of activities to do, such as snorkelling in Samoa's vibrant coral gardens.
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is the capital of Samoa. It is on the northern coast of the island of and has a population of 42,000. As with most Pacific Island capitals, is a little shabby and run down.

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is the most important of Samoa's islands. The Region of also includes all other islands of the country apart from the so-called "big" island of .

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Savaiʻi is the largest and highest both in Samoa and in the Samoan Islands chain. The island is also the sixth largest in , behind the three main islands of New Zealand and the of Hawaii and .

Samoa

Latitude of center
-13.9394° or 13° 56′ 22″ south
Longitude of center
-171.7383° or 171° 44′ 18″ west
Population
193,000
Area
1,137 miles² (2,944 km²)
Capital
Currency
Tala (WST)
Phone code
.ws
Internet domain
685
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1529444079
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
4034894
Wiki­data ID
Q683
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Samoa” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Самоа”
  • Achinese: “Samoa”
  • Afrikaans: “Samoa”
  • Akan: “Samoa”
  • Albanian: “Samoa”
  • Amharic: “ሳሞአ”
  • Amharic: “ሳሞዓ”
  • Amis: “Samoa”
  • Angika: “सामोआ”
  • Arabic: “ساموا الغربية”
  • Arabic: “ساموا”
  • Aragonese: “Samoa”
  • Armenian: “Սամոա”
  • Arpitan: “Samoa”
  • Assamese: “চামোৱা”
  • Asturian: “Samoa”
  • Atayal: “Samoa”
  • Azerbaijani: “Samoa”
  • Balinese: “Samoa”
  • Bambara: “Samoa”
  • Bambara: “Samowa”
  • Banjar: “Samoa”
  • Bashkir: “Самоа”
  • Basque: “Samoa”
  • Batak Toba: “Samoa”
  • Belarusian: “Заходняе Самоа”
  • Belarusian: “Самоа”
  • Bengali: “সামোয়া”
  • Betawi: “Samoa”
  • 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”
  • Corsican: “Samoa Occidentali”
  • Corsican: “Samoa”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Samoa”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Samuwa”
  • Croatian: “Samoa”
  • Croatian: “Zapadna Samoa” (historical)
  • Czech: “Samoa”
  • Dagbani: “Western Samoa”
  • Danish: “Samoa”
  • Dhivehi: “ސަމޯއާ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Samoa”
  • Dotyali: “समोआ”
  • Dutch: “Onafhankelijke Staat Samoa”
  • Dutch: “Samoa”
  • Dutch: “WS”
  • Dutch: “WSM”
  • Dzongkha: “ས་མོ་ཨ”
  • Eastern Mari: “Самоа”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ساموا”
  • Esperanto: “Okcidenta Samoo”
  • Esperanto: “Samoo”
  • Esperanto: “Sendependa Ŝtato Samoo”
  • Esperanto: “WS”
  • Estonian: “Samoa Iseseisvusriik”
  • Estonian: “Samoa”
  • Ewe: “Samoa nutome”
  • Extremaduran: “Samoa”
  • Faroese: “Samoa”
  • Faroese: “Sámoa”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Samoa”
  • Fijian: “Samoa”
  • Finnish: “Samoa”
  • Finnish: “Samoan itsenäinen valtio”
  • French: “État indépendant des Samoa”
  • French: “Samoa occidentales”
  • French: “Samoa”
  • French: “WS”
  • Friulian: “Samoe”
  • Fulah: “Samowaa”
  • Gagauz: “Samoa”
  • Galician: “Samoa”
  • Ganda: “Samowa”
  • Georgian: “სამოა”
  • German: “Samoa”
  • German: “Unabhängiger Staat Samoa”
  • German: “West-Samoa”
  • German: “Westsamoa” (historical)
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “The Solomon Islands”
  • Gilaki: “سامۊآ”
  • Goan Konkani: “Samoa”
  • Goan Konkani: “सामोआ”
  • Gothic: “𐍃𐌰𐌼𐍉𐌰”
  • Greek: “Σαμόα”
  • Guarani: “Samóa”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Samoa”
  • Gujarati: “સમોઆ”
  • Haitian: “Samoa”
  • Haitian: “Samowa”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Samoa”
  • Hausa: “Samoa”
  • 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 jiečânâs staatâ”
  • Inari Sami: “Samoa”
  • Indonesian: “Samoa”
  • Interlingua: “Samoa”
  • Interlingue: “Samoa”
  • Inuktitut: “ᖕᒥᓵᒨ”
  • Irish: “Samó”
  • Italian: “Samoa Occidentali”
  • Italian: “Samoa”
  • 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”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Самоа”
  • Kashmiri: “سیمووا”
  • Kashubian: “Samoa”
  • Kazakh: “Самоа”
  • Khmer: “សាម័រ”
  • Kikuyu: “Samoa”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Samowa y’Uburengerazuba”
  • Kirghiz: “Самоа”
  • Korean: “사모아 독립국”
  • Korean: “사모아”
  • Korean: “서사모아”
  • Kotava: “Samoa”
  • Kurdish: “Samoa”
  • Ladin: “Samoa”
  • Ladino: “Samoa”
  • Lao: “ຊາມົວ”
  • Latin: “Samoa”
  • Latvian: “Rietumsamoa”
  • Latvian: “Rietumu Samoa”
  • Latvian: “Samoa Neatkarīgā Valsts”
  • 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: “l-Istat Indipendenti ta’ Samoa”
  • Maltese: “Samoa”
  • Manipuri: “ꯁꯥꯃꯣꯑꯥ”
  • Manx: “Samoa”
  • Maori: “Hāmoa ki te Uru”
  • Maori: “Hamoa”
  • Maori: “Hāmoa”
  • Marathi: “सामोआ”
  • Mazanderani: “ساموآ”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Samoa”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Samoa”
  • Minangkabau: “Samoa”
  • Mingrelian: “სამოა”
  • Mongolian: “Самоа”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “صاموا”
  • Nauru: “Tamoa”
  • Navajo: “Ndaʼałʼeełí Dineʼé Bikéyah”
  • Nepali: “सामोआ”
  • Newari: “सामोआ”
  • North Ndebele: “Samowa”
  • Northern Frisian: “Samoa”
  • Northern Sami: “Samoa iehčanas stáhta”
  • Northern Sami: “Samoa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Den selvstendige staten Samoa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Samoa”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Samoa”
  • Norwegian: “Samoa”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Samoa”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Samoa”
  • Oriya: “ପାଶ୍ଚାତ୍ୟ ସାମୋଆ”
  • Oriya: “ସମୋଆ”
  • Oriya: “ସାମୋଆ ସାଧାରଣତନ୍ତ୍ର”
  • Oriya: “ସାମୋଆ”
  • Ossetian: “Самоæ”
  • Pali: “समोआ”
  • Pampanga: “Samoa”
  • Panjabi: “ਸਮੋਆ”
  • Panjabi: “ਸਾਮੋਆ”
  • Papiamento: “Samoa”
  • Persian: “ساموآ”
  • Persian: “ساموا”
  • Piemontese: “Samoa”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Samoa”
  • Polish: “Samoa Zachodnie”
  • Polish: “Samoa”
  • 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: “Sāmoa i Sisifo” (historical)
  • Samoan: “Samoa”
  • Samoan: “Sāmoa”
  • Samogitian: “Samuoa”
  • Sango: “Samoäa”
  • Sanskrit: “समोआ”
  • Sardinian: “Samoa”
  • Scots: “Samoa”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Samoa”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Samotha”
  • Serbian: “SAM”
  • Serbian: “Западна Самоа”
  • Serbian: “Независна Држава Самоа”
  • Serbian: “Самоа”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Samoa”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းသႃႇမူဝ်းဝႃႇ”
  • Shona: “Samoa”
  • Sicilian: “Samoa”
  • Silesian: “Samoa”
  • Sindhi: “ساموا”
  • Sinhala: “සැමෝවා”
  • Sinhala: “ස්වාධීන සැමෝවා රාජ්‍යය”
  • Skolt Sami: “Samoa jiõččnaž riikk”
  • Skolt Sami: “Samoa jiõččnaž valdia”
  • Skolt Sami: “Samoa”
  • Slovak: “Samoa”
  • Slovak: “Samojský nezávislý štát”
  • Slovenian: “Samoa”
  • Somali: “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”
  • Tumbuka: “Samoa”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “ساموا”
  • Turkish: “Bağımsız Samoa Devleti”
  • Turkish: “Samoa”
  • Turkmen: “Samoa”
  • Udmurt: “Самоа”
  • Uighur: “ساموئا”
  • Ukrainian: “Самоа”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Samoa”
  • Urdu: “ساموآ”
  • Urdu: “ساموا”
  • 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”
  • “ma Samowa”
  • “Samoa”
  • “Samuoa”
  • “समोआ”

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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 “Samoa”. Photo: Neil, CC BY 2.0.