Population is about 197,097 people, the 186th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly one in 38,950 of everyone alive.
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Samoa
Independent State of Samoa
Oceania
ยท Polynesia
0Population
2.84Kkmยฒ of land
$4.32KGDP / person
ApiaCapital
- ISO codes
- WS ยท WSM
- Density
- 69 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- English, Samoan
- Currency
- Samoan tฤlฤ (WST)
- Dial code
- +685
- Internet domain
- .ws
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 13.6390ยฐ S, 172.4380ยฐ W
- Demonym
- Samoan
- UN region
- Polynesia
- Economy
- Least developed region
- Income group
- Lower middle income
- Total GDP
- $852M
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- None
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By the numbers
How Samoa stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
186th
of 242 ยท 0.00% of world population
Land area
177th
of 242 ยท 0.00% of world land
GDP per person
155th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
135th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Samoa
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Covers 2,842 kmยฒ, making it the 177th largest country here - about 9 times the size of Malta.
Population density is about 69 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Apia, at 13.84ยฐ S, 171.74ยฐ W, with a metropolitan population of about 61,916.
Has no land neighbours - it is an island nation, surrounded entirely by water.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Pacific/Apia.
The currency is the Samoan tฤlฤ (WST, symbol T).
Has 2 official languages: English and Samoan.
Dials on +685 and uses the .ws internet domain.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Pacific/Apia
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UTC+13:00
Cities
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Apia
13.8415ยฐ S, 171.7386ยฐ W
61.92K