Samoa
Samoa (officially Independent State of Samoa) is a country in Polynesia, with its capital at Apia, and is home to roughly 218.0K people.
Its official languages are English, Samoan; the currency in circulation is Samoan tālā (T); people from here are called Samoan.
- »In 2011 Samoa skipped 30 December entirely, jumping across the date line to align with Australia and New Zealand.
Samoa shares no land border with anything, so every approach is by sea or air. The closest other territories on file are Tonga (888 km), Fiji (1,127 km) and Tuvalu (1,187 km), measured centre to centre.
Apia was the site of a stand-off between American, German and British warships in 1889 that ended when a cyclone sank most of them.
2,791 km² (1,078 sq mi), 170th largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Luxembourg.
Population 218,019, 179th of 198 on file. That averages 78 per km² (202 per sq mi).
The Southern Cross in white on red, in the upper hoist, the constellation by which Polynesian navigators sailed.