Sāmoa
Independent State of Samoa | |||||
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| Aʻai laumua | Apia | ||||
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| Gagana aloaia | Faʻaperetania (Igilisi), Gagana Samoa | ||||
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| Eria | |||||
| • Aofai | 2,842 sikuea kilomita km² {{{areami²}}} sq mi | ||||
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| • Vavalalata | {{{population_density}}}/km² ({{{population_density_rank}}}) {{{population_densitymi²}}}/sq mi | ||||
| Sone Taimi | Vaʻaia Taimi Uma +13 (UTC{{{utc_offset}}}) | ||||
| Tulafono Initaneti | +685 | ||||
ʻO Sāmoa o se atunuʻu Polenīsia ʻi le vasa o le Pasefika. E lua motu tetele, Upolu ma Savaiʻi. E 180,741 (2006) le aofai o tagata e nonofo i totonu o Sāmoa.[1]Sa tūtoʻatasi Sāmoa i le tausaga 1962. Ua manumalo Sāmoa i le tutoatasi ua lana pule anamua, Niu Sila. O Sāmoa o le Atunuu muamua i le Pasefika na ia uluai maua le tutoatasi ao i lalo ai o le vaavaaiga a Niu Sila. I aso nei, e lua ni atumotu tetele i Samoa: O Sāmoa i Sisifo lea ua faaigoa o Sāmoa, ma Sāmoa i Sasaʻe lea ua faaigoa ia American Samoa, poʻo Amerika Sāmoa.
I nei taimi, o le Palemia o le Malo Tutoatasi o Sāmoa o Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa. O le Tama ma Ao O Le Malo mo Sāmoa, o lea ua tulai ai le Afioga ia Tuiatua Tupua Tamasese Efi ina ua tuʻumalo le Susuga i le Malietoa Tanumafili II i le Aso Faraire,11 o Me 2007.
E toatele tagata Samoa e nonofo i fafo i isi atunuʻu i le lalolagi. E toatele lava e nonofo i Niusila, Amelika, Ausetalia, Hawaiʻi, Amelika Sāmoa, Fiti, Toga, Ausetalia, Europa, ma isi atunuu pei o Iapani.
O le tausaga 1722 na iloa muamua ai motu o Samoa e papalagi, mai i le fauvaa Holani Jacob Roggeveen, sosoʻo ai lea ia Louis-Antoine de Bougainville i le tausaga 1768.
Taulaga i Apia
[Teuteu | edit source]O Apia le taulaga pito tele o Sāmoa, i le motu o Upolu. E 37, 708 (2006) tagata e nonofo i totonu o le taulaga o Apia.[1] O Apia o se nuʻu laititi ua faaigoa ai le taulaga pito tele o Samoa, ae ua faapotopoto ai isi nuʻu. O Apia e tu ai ofisa o le Malo ma fale pisinisi tetele o le atunuu.
Motu
[Teuteu | edit source]O motu uma o Samoa na foaina mai volekano.
E 10 motu o Sāmoa: Savaiʻi, Upolu, Manono, Apolima, Nuʻusafee, Fanuatapu, Nuʻulua, Namua, Nuʻutele ma Nuʻulopa. O motu o Manono, Apolima, ma Nuʻulopa e tu i le va o motu tele o Savaiʻi ma Upolu. O Savaiʻi le motu pito tele i Samoa, na soʻo ai lea o Upolu. E selau tolu sefulu maila le faataamilosaga o le motu o Upolu.
Gagana
[Teuteu | edit source]E lua gagana ua mafai ona faʻaogāina i Sāmoa, o le Gagana Faʻaperetania (Igilisi) ma le Gagana Faasamoa (Sāmoan).
Itūmālō
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E 11 itūmālō i Samoa. E 6 itumalo i Savaiʻi ma le 5 i Upolu ma motu laititi.[2]
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1 ma motu o Manono, Apolima and Nuʻulopa
2 ma motu laiti e fa i Aleipata ma le motu o Nuʻusafeʻe
3 ma nuʻu e lua i Upolu e iai Salamumu ma Leauvaʻa
Lotu
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O Sāmoa o se atunuu Lotu Kerisiano. Na amata le lotu Kerisiano i Samoa i le tausaga e 1830,[3] i le taunuʻu atu o le misionare John Williams i Sapapaliʻi i le motu o Savaiʻi. O le taimi foi lea na amata ai i Samoa le galuega a le Sosaiete a Misionare o Lonetona (L.M.S.).
O lotu o i totonu o Sāmoa o le Lotu Katoliko (Lotu Pope), Lotu E.F.K.S-Ekalesia Faapotopotoga Samoa, Lotu Mamona, Lotu Metotisi, Lotu Patipati, ma tele o isi tamaʻilotu kerisiano eseese ua faapena ona oo mai i totonu o Sāmoa. Sa i ai nisi atua sa faapena ona tapuai ai Sāmoa i aso ua mavae.
Ao le taimi nei, ua nao le toatasi lava le Atua ua faapena ona ifo taele ma tapuai a i tagata O Sāmoa ua nao le Tama o i Le lagi, le Atua, o le na faia i tatou i le faavae o Sāmoa, o loo faapea ona tusia ai upu nei: E faʻavae i le Atua Sāmoa.
Mau faasino
[Teuteu | edit source]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20110721230100/http://www.sbs.gov.ws/Portals/138/PDF/census%20survey/Table%202.%20Population%20byregion%2C%20faipule%20district%202006.pdf Samoa Bureau of Statistics, 2006 Population by region, faipule districts, village, age and sex, Retrieved 2 January, 2010.
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20110605081449/http://www.paclii.org/ws/legis/consol_act/tca1963317/ Samoa Territorial Constituencies Act 1963, Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute, Retrieved 2 January, 2009
- ↑ http://130.195.86.216/tm/scholarly/tei-TanSamo-_N66610.html Samoa Anamua by Siaosi Tana (lomia muamua i le tausaga 1884), NZ Electronic Text Centre, Victoria University, Retrieved 2 January, 2010.
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