american samoa

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Amerikan Samoası
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A US overseas territory in Oceania. Official name: Territory of American Samoa
{i} (Territory of American Samoa) group of islands in the southern Pacific Ocean which are a territory of the United States of America
An unincorporated territory of the United States in the southern Pacific Ocean northeast of Fiji comprising the eastern islands of the Samoan archipelago. American Samoa has been administered by the United States since 1899. Pago Pago, on Tutuila, the largest island of the group, is the capital. Population: 32,279. a group of islands in the Pacific Ocean, which are a territory of the US. Population: 54,000 (1995). Capital: Pago Pago. officially Territory of American Samoa Unincorporated U.S. territory (pop., 2000: 57,291), southwest-central Pacific Ocean. It includes the islands of Tutuila (the largest, with over two-thirds of the territory's land area and 95% of the population), Aunuu, Rose, Swains, and the Manua group. Area: 77 sq mi (199 sq km). Capital: Pago Pago (on Tutuila). Languages: Samoan, English (both official). Currency: U.S. dollar. Most of the islands are rocky, formed from extinct volcanoes, and are surrounded by coral reefs. Tutuila and the islands of Manua are dominated by central mountain ranges. Fishing and tourism are major industries, but the U.S. administration is the main employer. The majority of the population is of Samoan ancestry. The islands were probably inhabited by Polynesians 2,500 years ago. Dutch explorers became the first Europeans to visit the islands in 1722. A haven for runaway sailors and escaped convicts, the islands were ruled by local chiefs until 1860. The U.S. gained the right to establish a naval station at Pago Pago in 1872, and the U.S., Britain, and Germany administered a tripartite protectorate in 1889-99. The high chiefs ceded the eastern islands to the U.S. in 1904 (Britain ceded Swains in 1925). American Samoa was administered by the U.S. Department of the Navy until 1951 and afterward by the Department of the Interior. Its first constitution was approved in 1960, and in 1978 the territory's first elected governor took office
a United States territory on the eastern part of the island of Samoa

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Territory of American Samoa
{i} group of islands in the southern Pacific Ocean which are a territory of the United States of America
american samoa

    Hyphenation

    A·me·ri·can Sa·mo·a

    Turkish pronunciation

    ımerıkın sımōı

    Pronunciation

    /əˈmerəkən səˈmōə/ /əˈmɛrəkən səˈmoʊə/
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