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.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Photo: Thatotherperson, Public domain.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Pago Pago.
Pago Pago
Photo: Thatotherperson, Public domain.
Pago Pago is the capital city of American Samoa. In the Samoan language it is pronounced "Pahngo-Pahngo".
Places of Interest
Highlights include National Park of American Samoa and Matafao Peak.
National Park of American Samoa
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National Park of American Samoa 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.
Matafao Peak
Peak
Matafao Peak is a mountain in American Samoa, on the island of Tutuila. With an elevation of 2,142 feet, it is the highest peak on Tutuila Island. The mountain, like Rainmaker Mountain across Pago Pago Harbor, is a remnant of a volcanic plug and is part of the volcanic origins of the island.
Jean P. Haydon Museum
Museum
The Jean P. Haydon Museum is a museum in Pago Pago dedicated to the culture and history of the United States territory of American Samoa. It contains a collection of canoes, coconut-shell combs, pigs’ tusk armlets and native pharmacopoeia.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fagatogo and Tafuna.
Fagatogo
Village
Photo: Marshman, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Fagatogo is the downtown area of Pago Pago. Located in the low grounds at the foot of Matafao Peak, it was the location of the first American settlement on Tutuila Island.
Tafuna
Town
Photo: Eddy23, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tafuna is a village in Tualauta County, Western District, American Samoa. It is the most populous village in American Samoa, with a population of 7,988 according to the 2020 U.S. census.
Anua
Village
Anua is a village on Tutuila Island, American Samoa. It is located close to the capital Pago Pago, on the coast of Pago Pago Harbor. The term Pago Pago is often used for several settlements on Pago Pago Bay, including Anua, Lepua, Utulei, and others.
Tutuila
- Type: island with 54,400 residents
- Description: largest island in American Samoa
- Also known as: “Tootooellah”, “Tutuila Island”, and “Tutyella”
- Category: volcanic island
- Location: American Samoa, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-14.2863° or 14° 17′ 11″ southLongitude
-170.696° or 170° 41′ 46″ westPopulation
54,400Open location code
52QFP873+FJWikidata ID
Q269205
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Satellite Map
Discover Tutuila from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Tutuila” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “توتويلا”
- Asturian: “Tutuila”
- Basque: “Tutuila”
- Belarusian: “востраў Тутуіла”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Тутуіла”
- Belarusian: “Тутуіла (востраў)”
- Belarusian: “Тутуіла”
- Catalan: “Tutuila”
- Cebuano: “Tutuila Island”
- Chinese: “Tutuila Tó”
- 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: “Isla Tutuila”
- Spanish: “Tutuila”
- Swedish: “Tutuila”
- Thai: “ตูตูวีลา”
- Turkish: “Tutuila”
- Ukrainian: “Тутуїла”
- Urdu: “ٹوٹویلا”
- Vietnamese: “Tutuila”
- Wallisian: “Tutuila”
- Welsh: “Tutuila”
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