Sāmoa

Independent State of Samoa
Malo Saʻoloto Tutoʻatasi o Sāmoa (Samoan)
Independent State of Samoa Malo Saʻoloto Tutoʻatasi o Sāmoa (Samoan)
	Fu'a Coat of arms
	Mautauave: Faʻavae i le Atua Sāmoa; "Samoa is founded on God"
	Vi'i o le Atunu'u: O Le Fuʻa o le Saʻolotoga o Sāmoa; "The Banner of Freedom"
	Location of Samoa
	Map of Samoa
Laumua ma le a'ai e pitoisili ona tele	Apia; 13°50′00″S 171°45′44″W / 13.83333°S 171.76222°W
Gagana a le; atunu'u	Samoa, Igilisi
Fa'aletagata (2021)	92.6% Tagata Samoa; 7.0% Tagata Asia; 0.3% Tagata Europa; 0.1% nisi vaega o tagata;
Tapuaiga (2021)	97.9% Kerisiano (Lotu a le Malo) 54.9% Lotu Porotesano; 18.8% Lotu Pope; 16.9% Lotu Mamona; 7.3% nisi vaega; o Kerisiano; ; ; 1.7% leai se lotu; 0.4% nisi vaega o lotu;
Igoa o tagata	Samoan
Malo	Repapelika fa'apalemene
• O le Ao o le Malo	Tuimalealiʻifano Vaʻaletoʻa Sualauvi II
• Palemia	Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa
• Fofoga Fetalai	Papaliʻi Liʻo Taeu Masipau
Fono Faitulafono	Fono Aoao Faitulafono
Tuto'atasi mai Niu Sila
• Treaty of Berlin	14 Iuni 1889
• Tripartite Convention	16 Fepuari 1900
• Fa'akolone e Siamani	1 Mati 1900
• Nofoia e Niu Sila	30 Aukuso 1914
• League tausi mavaega	17 Tesema 1920
• UN tausi mavaega	13 Tesema 1946
• Tuto'atasi	1 Ianuari 1962
Eria
• Atoa	2,831 km2 (1,093 sq mi) (167th)
• Vai (%)	0.3
Aofa'i o tagata
• November 2021 census	205,557 (176th)
• To'atele o tagata	70/km2 (181.3/sq mi)
GDP (PPP)	2024 estimate
• Total	$1.225 billion
• Per capita	$5,962
GDP (moni)	2024 fuafuaina
• Atoa	$908.561 million
• Per capita	$4,420
Gini (2013)	38.7; medium inequality
HDI (2022)	0.702; high (116th)
Tupe	Tālā (WST)
Sone Taimi	UTC+13 (WST)
Fa'asologa o aso	dd/mm/yyyy
Itu e ave ai ta'avale	Agavale
Fa'ailoga telefoni	+685
ISO 3166 numera	WS
Initaneti TLD	.ws

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.^[4]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

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.^[4] 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

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

E lua gagana ua mafai ona faʻaogāina i Sāmoa, o le Gagana Faʻaperetania (Igilisi) ma le Gagana Faasamoa (Sāmoan).

Itūmālō

E 11 itūmālō i Samoa. E 6 itumalo i Savaiʻi ma le 5 i Upolu ma motu laititi.^[10]

Upolu

(including minor islands)

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

O Sāmoa o se atunuu Lotu Kerisiano. Na amata le lotu Kerisiano i Samoa i le tausaga e 1830,^[11] 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.

Fa'asinomaga

↑ "Samoa". CIA – The World Factbook. 26 October 2021. Archived from the original on 28 October 2021. Retrieved 24 January 2021.
↑ "Samoa Population and Housing Census 2021" (PDF). Archived from the original on 3 April 2019. Retrieved 10 January 2023.
↑ "Samoa". Central Intelligence Agency. 27 February 2023. Archived from the original on 28 October 2021. Retrieved 24 January 2021 – via CIA.gov.
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 ^4.2 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.
↑ ^5.0 ^5.1 ^5.2 ^5.3 "Samoa". International Monetary Fund. Archived from the original on 10 October 2018. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
↑ "Gini Index coefficient". CIA World Factbook. Archived from the original on 17 July 2021. Retrieved 16 July 2021.
↑ "Human Development Report 2023/2024" (PDF) (in English). United Nations Development Programme. 13 March 2024. Archived (PDF) from the original on 13 March 2024. Retrieved 13 March 2024.
↑ "Samoa skips Friday in time zone change". ABC Australia. 31 December 2011. Archived from the original on 3 January 2012. Retrieved 16 January 2012.
↑ Chang, Richard S. (8 September 2009). "In Samoa, Drivers Switch to Left Side of the Road". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 9 July 2017. Retrieved 23 May 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
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[cia-1] "Samoa". CIA – The World Factbook. 26 October 2021. Archived from the original on 28 October 2021. Retrieved 24 January 2021.

[2] "Samoa Population and Housing Census 2021" (PDF). Archived from the original on 3 April 2019. Retrieved 10 January 2023.

[3] "Samoa". Central Intelligence Agency. 27 February 2023. Archived from the original on 28 October 2021. Retrieved 24 January 2021 – via CIA.gov.

[sbs-4] 4.0 ^4.1 ^4.2 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.

[imf2-5] 5.0 ^5.1 ^5.2 ^5.3 "Samoa". International Monetary Fund. Archived from the original on 10 October 2018. Retrieved 10 October 2018.

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[7] "Human Development Report 2023/2024" (PDF) (in English). United Nations Development Programme. 13 March 2024. Archived (PDF) from the original on 13 March 2024. Retrieved 13 March 2024.

[8] "Samoa skips Friday in time zone change". ABC Australia. 31 December 2011. Archived from the original on 3 January 2012. Retrieved 16 January 2012.

[9] Chang, Richard S. (8 September 2009). "In Samoa, Drivers Switch to Left Side of the Road". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 9 July 2017. Retrieved 23 May 2010.

[10] ttps://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

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