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Apia ( Samoan: [a.pi.a]) is the capital and only city of Samoa. It is located on the central north coast of Upolu, Samoa's second-largest island. Apia falls within the political district ( itūmālō) of Tuamasaga . The Apia Urban Area (generally known as the City of Apia) has a population of 35,974 (2021 census). [ 2]
It comprises the western half of the Samoa islands, (2,831 km 2 (1,093 sq mi) and 196,000 inhabitants (2016)). It was known as German Samoa from 1900 to 1914, and as Western Samoa until 1997. Capital: Apia; currency: Samoan tala. American Samoa, an unincorporated territory of the United States comprising
Samoa, [note 1] officially the Independent State of Samoa [note 2] and until 1997 known as Western Samoa (Samoan: Sāmoa i Sisifo), is a Polynesian island country consisting of two main islands (Savai'i and Upolu); two smaller, inhabited islands (Manono and Apolima); and several smaller, uninhabited islands, including the Aleipata Islands (Nu'utele, Nu'ulua, Fanuatapu and Namua).
Upolu. / 13.917°S 171.750°W / -13.917; -171.750. Upolu is an island in Samoa, formed by a massive basaltic shield volcano which rises from the seafloor of the western Pacific Ocean. The island is 75 kilometres (47 miles) long and 1,125 square kilometres (434 square miles) in area, making it the second largest of the Samoan Islands by ...
Map of Samoa. This article shows a list of cities, towns ... Main townships. Apia, capital of Samoa situated on Upolu island. Salelologa, main 'township ...
Chromograph map of Samoa - George Cram 1896. The Samoan Islands were first settled some 3,500 years ago as part of the Austronesian expansion.Both Samoa's early history and its more recent history are strongly connected to the histories of Tonga and Fiji, nearby islands with which Samoa has long had genealogical links as well as shared cultural traditions.
0-8248-1857-1. OCLC. 227258432. A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa is an 1892 historical non-fiction work by Scottish -born author Robert Louis Stevenson describing the contemporary Samoan Civil War. [ 1] Robert Louis Stevenson arrived in Samoa in 1889 and built a house at Vailima. He quickly became passionately interested ...
Wallis and Futuna is located about two-thirds of the way from Hawaii to New Zealand. It is 13°18′S176°12′W13.300°S 176.200°W, 360 km (220 mi) west of Samoa and 480 km (300 mi) northeast of Fiji. The territory includes the island of Uvéa (also called Wallis), which is the most populous; the island of Futuna; the virtually uninhabited ...