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Samoa, [note 1] officially the Independent State of Samoa [note 2] and known until 1997 as Western Samoa (Samoan: Sāmoa i Sisifo), is an island country in Polynesia, consisting of two main islands (Savai'i and Upolu); two smaller, inhabited islands (Manono and Apolima); and several smaller, uninhabited islands, including the Aleipata Islands (Nuʻutele, Nuʻulua, Fanuatapu and Namua).
The volcanic Samoa island chain may have been formed by the activity of the Samoa hotspot at the eastern end of the Samoa Islands. In theory, that hotspot was created by the movement of the Pacific tectonic plate over a 'fixed' deep and narrow mantle plume spewing up through the Earth's crust. One piece of evidence that this activity may have ...
Previous names were Samoa from 1900 to 1919, and Western Samoa from 1914 to 1997. It was admitted to the United Nations on 15 December 1976. [ 2 ] The entire island group , inclusive of American Samoa , was known by Europeans as the Navigator Islands before the 20th century because of the Samoans' seafaring skills.
This is a list of island countries. An island is a landmass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water. [1] ... Samoa: WS WSM Archipelago: Oceanic 2,842 1,097
The two-letter country codes were used by the US government for geographical data processing in many publications, such as the CIA World Factbook. The standard is also known as DAFIF 0413 ed 7 Amdt. No. 3 (Nov 2003) and as DIA 65-18 ( Defense Intelligence Agency , 1994, "Geopolitical Data Elements and Related Features").
These also occupy 14 percent of American Samoa's total workforce as of 2014. [179] The most industrialized area in the territory can be found between Pago Pago Harbor and the Tafuna-Leone Plain, which also are the two most densely populated places in the islands. [180] American Samoa was the world's fourth-largest tuna processor in 1993.
Samoa Independent State of Samoa WSM English: Samoa — Independent State of Samoa Samoan: Samoa — Malo Sa‘oloto Tuto'atasi o Samoa: Apia: 218,764 2,831 km 2 (1,093 sq mi) Solomon Islands SLB English: Solomon Islands Pijin: Solomon Aelan: Honiara: 707,851 28,896 km 2 (11,157 sq mi) Tonga Kingdom of Tonga TON English: Tonga — Kingdom of Tonga
Samoans or Samoan people (Samoan: tagata Sāmoa) are the Indigenous Polynesian people of the Samoan Islands, an archipelago in Polynesia, who speak the Samoan language.The group's home islands are politically and geographically divided between the Independent State of Samoa and American Samoa, an unincorporated territory of the United States of America.