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Samoa (nation) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 13 48 00 S degrees minutes |
Lat: -13.8000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 172 07 58 W degrees minutes |
Long: -172.1333 decimal degrees |
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Note: Comprises western Samoa Islands; area was settled by Polynesians (probably from Tonga) of lapita tradition by 1000 BCE; large societies developed by 300 BCE; controlled by Germany, Britain, and the United States in the late 19th century; controlled by New Zealand after WW I; official languages are Samoan (a Polynesian dialect) and English. |
Names: |
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| Samoa (preferred,C,V,English-P,U,N)
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| Samoa (Somali)
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| Samoa (Tagalog)
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| Samoa (Samoan-P,U,N)
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| Samoa (Malagasy)
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| Samoa (Maltese)
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| Samoa (Indonesian)
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| Samoa (Azerbaijani)
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| Samoa (Croatian)
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| Samoa (Bosnian)
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| Samoa (Latin)
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| Samoa (Latvian)
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| Samoa (Lingala)
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| Samoa (Magyar (Hungarian))
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| Samoa (Danish)
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| Samoa (Norwegian (Nynorsk))
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| Samoa (Finnish)
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| Samoa (Swedish)
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| Samoa (Polish)
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| Samoa (Portuguese)
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| Samoa (Romanian)
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| Samoa (Slovak)
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| Samoa (Slovene)
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| Samoa (Spanish-P,U,N)
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| Samoa (Catalan)
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| Samoa (Basque)
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| Samoa (Aragonese)
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| Samoa (Akan)
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| Samoa (Welsh)
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| Samoa (German)
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| Samoa (Low German)
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| Samoa (Albanian)
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| Samoa (Breton)
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| Samoa (Cornish)
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| Samoa (Czech)
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| Samoa (Dutch)
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| Samoa (Afrikaans)
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| Samoa (French-P,U,N)
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| Samoa (Galician)
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| Samoa (Italian)
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| Samoa (Lithuanian)
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| Samoa (Estonian)
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| Samoa (Greenlandic)
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| Samoa (Turkish)
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| Samoa (Occitan)
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| Samoa (Norwegian (Bokmål))
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| Samoa (Romansh)
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| Samoa (Kikuyu)
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| Samoa (Luba-Katanga)
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| Samoa (Malay (macrolanguage))
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| Samoa (Norwegian)
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| Samoa (Northern Sami)
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| Samoa (Shona)
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| Samoa (Swahili (generic))
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| Samoa (Ido)
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| Samoa (Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association))
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| Malo Saʻoloto Tutoʻatasi o Samoa (C,V,O,Samoan,U,N)
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| Independent State of Samoa (C,O,English,U,N)
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| Samoa, Independent State of (C,O,English,U,N)
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| État indépendant du Samoa (C,O,French,U,N)
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| Estado Independiente de Samoa (C,O,Spanish,U,N)
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| Самоа (C,O,Serbian)
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| Самоа (Macedonian)
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| Самоа (Bulgarian)
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| Самоа (Russian-P,U)
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| Самоа (Ukrainian)
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| Независимое Государство Самоа (C,O,Russian,U)
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| 萨摩亚 (C,O,Chinese-P,U)
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| 西萨摩亚独立国 (C,O,Chinese,U)
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| ساموا (C,O,Pashto)
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| ساموا (Kurdish)
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| ساموا (Persian-Farsi)
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| ساموا (Arabic-P,U)
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| دولة ساموا المس خللة (C,O,Arabic,U)
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| WSM (C,O,ISO3L)
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| WS (C,O,ISO2L)
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| ISO882 (C,O,ISO3N)
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| Samoan (C,O,English,U,A)
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| סמואה (C,U,Hebrew )
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| Bağımsız Samoa Devleti (C,U,Turkish)
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| Haʻamoa (C,U,Tonga (Tonga Islands))
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| Hamoa (C,U,Maori)
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| Hāmoa (C,U,Tahitian)
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| i-Samoa (C,U,Zulu)
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| Malo Sa’oloto Tuto’atasi o Samoa (C,U,Samoan)
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| Orílẹ́ède Samọ (C,U,Yoruba)
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| Rietumsamoa (C,U,Latvian)
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| Samó (C,U,Irish Gaelic)
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| Samóa (C,U,Icelandic)
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| Sámoa (C,U,Faroese)
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| Samoäa (C,U,Sangho)
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| Samoa nutome (C,U,Ewe)
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| Samoo (C,U,Esperanto)
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| Samovuäns (C,U,Volapük)
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| Samowa (C,U,Rundi)
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| Samowa (Ganda (Ugandan language))
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| Samowa (Bambara)
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| Samowa (Hausa)
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| Samowa (North Ndebele)
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| Samowaa (C,U,Fulah)
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| Szamoa (C,U,Magyar (Hungarian))
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| Xa-moa (C,U,Vietnamese)
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| Xa-moa (Samoa) (C,U,Vietnamese)
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| ساموئا (C,U,Uyghur)
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| サモア (C,U,Japanese)
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| சமோவா (C,U,Tamil)
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| ประเทศซามัว (C,U,Thai)
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| ซามัว (C,U,Thai)
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| სამოა (C,U,Georgian)
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| ሳሞአ (C,U,Tigrinya)
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| ሳሞአ (Amharic)
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| Σαμόα (C,U,Greek)
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| សាមូអា (C,U,Khmer)
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| 사모아 (C,U,Korean)
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| Սամոա (C,U,Armenian)
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| ساموآ (C,U,Urdu)
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| ساموآ (Persian-Farsi)
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| 西サモア (C,U,Japanese)
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| समोआ (C,U,Sanskrit)
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| समोआ (Hindi)
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| සැමෝවා (C,U,Sinhala)
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| ସାମୋଆ (C,U,Odia)
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| Самоа (Заходняе) (C,U,Belarusian)
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| সামোয়া (C,U,Bengali)
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| ಸಮೋವಾ (C,U,Kannada)
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| ནུ་བ་ས་མོ་འ། (C,U,Tibetan)
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| സാമോവ (C,U,Malayalam)
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| सामोआ (C,U,Marathi)
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| सामोआ (Nepali)
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| સમોઆ (C,U,Gujarati)
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| సమోవా (C,U,Telugu)
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| État indépendant du Samoa-Occidental (H,O)
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............ | until 1997 |
| Independent State of Western Samoa (H,V)
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............ | until 1997 |
| Malo Saʻoloto Tutoʻatasi o Samoa i Sisifo (H,V,Samoan,U,N)
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| Samoa i Sisifo (H,V)
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| Samoa Occidental (H,O)
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............ | until 1997 |
| Samoa Ocidental (H,O)
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............ | until 1997 |
| Western Samoa (H,V)
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............ | until 1997 |
| Westsamoa (H,O)
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............ | until 1997 |
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Hierarchical Position: |
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Additional Parents: |
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Samoa (nation) (P) |
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Place Types: |
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| nation (preferred, C) |
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gained independence in 1962 |
| primary political unit (C) |
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| independent sovereign nation (C) |
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| constitutional monarchy (C) |
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established January 1, 1962 |
| former territory/colony/dependent state (C) |
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| mandate (H) |
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of New Zealand, 1920 |
| independent political entity (C) |
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Related geographic places: |
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| capital is .... |
Apia .......... (inhabited place) |
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(World, Oceania, Samoa, lost & found/Samoa) [1099657] |
| member of .... |
Commonwealth of Nations .......... (association) |
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(World) [7005615] |
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joined association in 1970 |
| member of .... |
United Nations .......... (organization) |
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(World) [7029605] |
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joined organization in 1976 |
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Sources and Contributors: |
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| État indépendant du Samoa-Occidental.......... |
[VP] |
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ISO Handbook (1988) 783 |
| Malo Sa’oloto Tuto’atasi o Samoa.......... |
[VP] |
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GeoNames online [n.d.] 4034894 |
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