More Information about Samoa

With its 196,628 people, Samoa is the 182nd largest country in the world by population. It is the 173rd largest country in the world 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.

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