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On June 13, 1722, Dutch navigator Jacob Roggeveen became the first European to sight the Samoan Islands beginning with the Manu’a Islands in American Samoa.
#TBT: June 22, 2023
At a glance
- Status
- Unincorporated territory
- Citizenship
- US nationals (not citizens)
- Capital
- Pago Pago
- Population
- 49,710
- Land area
- 77 sq mi
- Language
- Samoan, English
- President
- Donald Trump (R)
- Governor
- Pula Nikolao Pula (R)
- Delegate to Congress
- Amata Coleman Radewagen (R)
- Presidential vote
- No
- Voting representation in Congress
- No
- Official website
- www.americansamoa.gov
Recent Posts
- “None of the above” leads Pasquines poll in American Samoa’s delegate race
- Census proposal to drop race and ethnicity questions could erase the “Puerto Rican” checkbox
- Delegate candidate Afu Lefaoseu warns American Samoa is “one corporate decision away” from economic collapse
- Plaskett ahead in Pasquines poll in US Virgin Islands governor’s race but falls short of a majority
- Fualaau Rosie Tago Lancaster seeks delegate seat on a promise of a hospital wing for veterans
