Samoa
Watermark portrait: Tim Cahill
Island country in the Pacific Ocean
Samoa, officially the Independent State of Samoa, is an island country in Polynesia, part of Oceania, in the South Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main islands, two smaller, inhabited islands, and several smaller, uninhabited islands, including the Aleipata Islands. Samoa is located 64 km west of American Samoa, 889 km northeast of Tonga, 1,152 km northeast of Fiji, 483 km east of Wallis and Futuna, 1,151 km southeast of Tuvalu, 519 km south of Tokelau, 4,190 km southwest of Hawaii, and 610 km northwest of Niue. The capital and largest city is Apia.
Text: Wikipedia — SamoaCC BY-SA 4.0 · revised 2026-07-30
- Capital
- Apia
- Currency
- Samoan tālā (WST)
- Official language
- English, Samoan
- Drives on the
- Left
- Calling code
- +685
- Licence plate code
- WS
- Top-level domain
- .ws
- Independence / founding
- 1962
- Highest point
- Silisili (1,858 m)
- Lowest point
- Pacific Ocean (0 m)
- Anthem
- The Banner of Freedom
The World Bank does not publish figures for Samoa, so this note carries no economic or social statistics.
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