Samoa

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Codes and identifiers

ISO alpha-2
WS
ISO alpha-3
WSM
ISO numeric
882
FIPS 10-4
WS
GeoNames ID
4034894

Key facts

Capital
Apia
Area
2,944 km²
Population
196,130
Currency
Tala (WST)
Calling code
+685
Top-level domain
.ws
Official languages
sm,en-WS

Continent

Name
Oceania
Code
OC
In this dataset
28 countries

Oceania in the country atlas

Location

Latitude
-13.8
Longitude
-172.13333
Min latitude
-14.05282968499995
Min longitude
-172.7825821609999
Max latitude
-13.462823174999926
Max longitude
-171.43769283799992

Boundary

Samoa

The API call behind this page

Request

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
  "https://geosearch.dev/v1/countries/WS?fields=iso_code,iso3_code,name,capital,population,area_sq_km,currency_code,continent_code"

Response

{
  "data": {
    "area_sq_km": 2944,
    "capital": "Apia",
    "continent_code": "OC",
    "currency_code": "WST",
    "iso3_code": "WSM",
    "iso_code": "WS",
    "name": "Samoa",
    "population": 196130
  }
}

Formatted for reading. The API returns the same JSON on one line.

Other endpoints for this country

  • /v1/countries/WS/regions
  • /v1/cities?country=WS
  • /v1/postal-codes?country=WS
  • /v1/timezones?country=WS
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Name in other languages

Arabic
ساموا
Chinese
萨摩亚
English
Samoa
French
Samoa
German
Samoa
Hindi
समोआ
Italian
Samoa
Japanese
サモア
Korean
사모아
Portuguese
Samoa
Russian
Самоа
Spanish
Samoa
Total language variants
138

The API returns any of them with ?lang=.

Time zones

IANA ID UTC offset DST offset
Pacific/Apia UTC+13:00 UTC+13:00

Postal code format

Format
AS 96799
Pattern
AS 96799

First-level administrative regions

  • Tuamasaga
  • A'ana
  • Atua
  • Fa‘asaleleaga
  • Palauli
  • Gaga‘emauga
  • Vaisigano
  • Satupa‘itea
  • Aiga-i-le-Tai
  • Gagaifomauga
  • Va‘a-o-Fonoti

11 of 11 shown, largest first

Largest cities

City Population
Apia 40,407
Palauli 9,300
Vaitele 7,972
Asau 6,643
Mulifanua 4,508
Sale’imoa 3,816
Vaiusu 2,686
Siusega 2,618
Faleula 2,592
Vaimoso 2,465

Coverage in this dataset

Cities
408
First-level regions
11
Postal codes
1
Name languages
138
Boundary polygon
Yes

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