Tutuila
Tutuila is the most populous island in American Samoa, and is home to its capital, Pago Pago, and principal airport. Tutuila 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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Top destinations: Pago Pago.
Places of Interest
Highlights: Matafao Peak and Tau.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tafuna and Fagatogo.
Tutuila
- Type: Island
- Description: largest island in American Samoa
- Also known as: “Isla Tutuila”, “Maouna Island”, “Mouna”, “Toomahlooah”, “Tootaillah Island”, “Tootooellah”, “Tutuilla”, “Tutuilla Island”, “Tutyella”, “востраў Тутуіла”, and “Тутуіла (востраў)”
- Categories: volcanic island and landform
- Location: Eastern District, American Samoa, Polynesia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-14.2997° or 14° 17′ 59″ south
Longitude
-170.7225° or 170° 43′ 21″ west
Population
54,400
Elevation
1,325 feet (404 metres)
Open location code
52QFP72H+42
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Tutuila” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “توتويلا”
- Asturian: “Tutuila”
- Basque: “Tutuila”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Тутуіла”
- Belarusian: “Тутуіла”
- Catalan: “Tutuila”
- Cebuano: “Tutuila Island”
- Chinese: “图图伊拉岛”
- Chinese: “圖圖伊拉島”
- Czech: “Tutuila”
- Danish: “Tutuila”
- Dutch: “Tutuila”
- Egyptian Arabic: “توتويلا”
- Faroese: “Tutuila”
- Finnish: “Tutuila”
- French: “Tutuila”
- Galician: “Tutuila”
- Georgian: “ტუტუილა”
- German: “Tutuila”
- Hebrew: “טוטווילה”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Tutuila”
- Italian: “Tutuila”
- Japanese: “トゥトゥイラ島”
- Korean: “투투일라섬”
- Latin: “Tutuila”
- Latvian: “Tutuila”
- Lithuanian: “Tutuila”
- Malay: “Gunung Berapi Tutuila”
- Malayalam: “ടൂടൂഈല”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tutuila Tó”
- Persian: “توتوئیلا”
- Polish: “Tutuila”
- Portuguese: “Tutuila”
- Pushto: “توتويلا”
- Russian: “Тутуила”
- Samoan: “Tutuila”
- Serbian: “Тутуила”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Tutuila”
- Sinhala: “ටුටුයිලා, ඇමරිකානු සැමෝවා”
- Slovak: “Tutuila”
- Spanish: “Tutuila”
- Swedish: “Tutuila”
- Thai: “ตูตูวีลา”
- Turkish: “Tutuila”
- Ukrainian: “Тутуїла”
- Urdu: “ٹوٹویلا”
- Vietnamese: “Tutuila”
- Wallisian: “Tutuila”
- Welsh: “Tutuila”
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