Upolu
Upolu is the most important of Samoa's islands. The Region of Upolu also includes all other islands of the country apart from the so-called "big" island of Savaii.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Apia
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Apia is the capital of Samoa. It is on the northern coast of the island of Upolu and has a population of 42,000. As with most Pacific Island capitals, Apia is a little shabby and run down.
Upolu
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Mari—“Upolu” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أوبولو”
- Armenian: “Ուպոլու”
- Asturian: “Islla Upolu”
- Asturian: “Upolu”
- Basque: “Upolu”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Уполу”
- Belarusian: “Уполу”
- Bosnian: “Upolu”
- Bulgarian: “Уполу”
- Catalan: “Upolu”
- Cebuano: “Upolu (pulo sa Samoa)”
- Cebuano: “Upolu”
- Chinese: “Upolu Tó”
- Chinese: “乌波卢岛”
- Chinese: “烏波盧島”
- Croatian: “Upolu”
- Czech: “Upolu”
- Danish: “Upolu”
- Dutch: “‘Upolu”
- Dutch: “Upolu”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اوبولو”
- Estonian: “Upolu saar”
- Estonian: “Upolu”
- Fijian: “Upolu”
- Finnish: “Upolu”
- French: “Île d’Upolu”
- French: “Upolu”
- Galician: “Upolu”
- Georgian: “უპოლუ”
- German: “Upolu”
- Greek: “Ουπόλου”
- Hebrew: “אופולו”
- Hindi: “उपोलू”
- Hungarian: “Upolu”
- Indonesian: “Upolu”
- Italian: “Upolu”
- Japanese: “ウポル島”
- Karachay-Balkar: “Уполу”
- Korean: “우폴루 섬”
- Korean: “우폴루섬”
- Latin: “Upolu”
- Latvian: “Upolu”
- Lithuanian: “Upolu”
- Macedonian: “Уполу”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Upolu Tó”
- Moroccan Arabic: “أوپولو”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Upolu”
- Norwegian: “Upolu”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Upolu”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Upolu”
- Persian: “اوپولو”
- Polish: “‘Upolu”
- Polish: “Upolu”
- Portuguese: “Upolu”
- Russian: “Уполу”
- Samoan: “Upolu”
- Serbian: “Upolu”
- Serbian: “Уполу”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Upolu”
- Sinhala: “උපෝලු”
- Slovak: “Upolu”
- Slovenian: “Upolu”
- Spanish: “Upolu”
- Swedish: “Upolu”
- Turkish: “Upolu Adası”
- Ukrainian: “Уполу”
- Urdu: “اوپولو”
- Vietnamese: “Upolu”
- Western Mari: “Уполу”
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About Mapcarta. 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 “Upolu”. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.