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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.
Samoan, English Demographic features of the population of Samoa include population density , ethnicity , education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.
There are 365 Samoan-origin people in Prince William County, Virginia, and a Samoan church in Alexandria. [30] There is a community of Samoans in Liberty County, Georgia. In Texas, there is a Samoan community prominent in the Dallas-Fort Worth suburb of Euless (0.5%), and a Samoan church in the city of Killeen (0.3%).
Samoan American is a subcategory of Polynesian American. About 55,000 people live on American Samoa, while the 2000 and 2008 US censuses have found four times the number of Samoan Americans live in the mainland US. California has the most Samoans; concentrations live in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles County, and San Diego County.
In 2010, 37,463 Hawaii residents (or 2-3% of the population) claimed Samoan ancestry, with 19,176 of them being mixed ethnicity. [2]
These royal blood ties are routinely acknowledged at special events and cultural gatherings. According to Samoan folklore, two maidens from Fiji brought to Samoa the tools that were necessary to engage in the art of tatau (in English, the tattoo), and this is the origin of the traditional Samoan movie (also known as pe'a for men and as malu for ...
Ethnic groups in Samoa (2 C, 1 P) ... Languages of Samoa (2 C, 2 P) S. Samoan people by descent (7 C) Pages in category "Demographics of Samoa"
Category: Ethnic groups in Samoa. 9 languages. ... Samoan people (18 C, 2 P) Samoan people by descent (7 C) Pages in category "Ethnic groups in Samoa"