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With its 192,001 people Samoa is the 183rd largest country in the world by population. It is the 176th largest country by area with 2,831 square kilometers. New Zealand occupied the German protectorate of Western Samoa at the outbreak of World War I in 1914. It continued to administer the islands as a mandate and then as a trust territory until 1962, when the islands became the first Polynesian nation to reestablish independence in the 20th century. The country dropped the "Western" from its name in 1997.
Check out the recommended reading list below for great sources of information on Samoa.
Lonely Planet Rarotonga Samoa & Tonga (Multi Country Guide)
Craig Mclachlan
Samoa & Tonga (Multi Country Travel Guide)
Peter Dragicevich
Samoa (Independent and American) Scale Varies Travel Map
ITM Canada
Islands of Samoa: Reference Map of Tutuila, Manu'A, 'Upolu, and Savai'I
James A. Bier
Lonely Planet Samoa, Western and American Samoa (Lonely Planet Samoan Islands)
Deanna Swaney
Samoa: A Hundred Years Ago and Long before. Together with Notes on the Cults and Customs of Twenty-three Other Islands in the Pacific
George Turner
Samoa Clothing and Textile Industry Handbook
Ibp Usa
Quest for the Real Samoa: The Mead/Freeman Controversy and Beyond
Lowell D. Holmes
Lonely Planet Samoa : Independent & American Samoa (3rd Ed)
Dorinda Talbot
