American Samoa, located within the geographical region of Oceania, is one of only two possessions of the United States in the Southern Hemisphere, the other being Jarvis Island.

American Samoa is the southernmost part of the United States.

American Samoa is home to the National Park of American Samoa.

This article is about the demographic features of the population of American Samoa, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.

Politics of American Samoa takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic dependency, whereby the Governor is the head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system.

American Samoa is an unincorporated and unorganized territory of the United States, administered by the Office of Insular Affairs, US Department of the Interior.

There is also the traditional village politics of the Samoa Islands, the " faamatai " and the " faasamoa ", which continues in American Samoa and in independent Samoa, and which interacts across these current boundaries.

The government operates under a framework of a presidential representative democratic dependency, whereby the Governor of American Samoa is the head of government.

Legislative power is vested in the American Samoa Fono.

The High Court of American Samoa is the highest court below the United States Supreme Court in American Samoa, with the District Courts below it.

: An overview on elections and election results is included in Elections in American Samoa.

The economy of American Samoa is a traditional Polynesian economy in which more than 90 % of the land is communally owned.

Economic activity is strongly linked to the United States, with which American Samoa conducts the great bulk of its foreign trade.

* 2011 – Due to a change of time zone the day is skipped in Samoa and Tokelau.

There is debate as to whether Samoa is / was an elective monarchy or an aristocratic republic, given the comparative ambiguity of the title O le Ao o le Malo and the nature of the head of state's office.

Kingman Reef () is a largely submerged, uninhabited triangular shaped reef, east-west and north-south, located in the North Pacific Ocean, roughly half way between the Hawaiian Islands and American Samoa at.

: There is now a large body of criticism of Freeman's work from a number of perspectives in which Mead, Samoa, and anthropology appear in a very different light than they do in Freeman's work.

Evaluating Mead's work in Samoa from a positivist stance, Martin Orans ' assessment of the controversy was that Mead did not formulate her research agenda in scientific terms, and that " her work may properly be damned with the harshest scientific criticism of all, that it is ' not even wrong '".

The entire island group, inclusive of American Samoa, was called “ Navigators Islands ” by European explorers before the 20th century because of the Samoans ' seafaring skills.

In Samoa, a reverse version of the kidnapping rule was used, called " spy expedition " ( also known as " observing ").

There is also a district on the island of Upolu in Samoa called Atua.

Young Lu argued with his uncle Moa and fled to earth which he called Samoa.

The currency of Samoa is also called the tālā.

In 2012, both Faleomavaega and the American Samoa Governor called for the populace to consider a move towards autonomy if not independence, to a mixed response.

The purple swamphen was held in high regard as a chiefly pet in New Zealand and in Samoa, where it is called " manuali ' i " ( literally, " chiefly bird ").

Some Samoans also considered the swamphen to be the incarnation of a mischievous, aggressive demon called Vave ( Corey & Shirley Muse, " The Birds and Birdlore of Samoa ," 1982 ).

During the 1860s, planters in Australia, Fiji, New Caledonia, and the Samoa Islands, in need of laborers, encouraged a long-term indentured labor trade called " blackbirding.

The legendary homeland of the Māori of New Zealand, where w is used instead of v, is Hawaiki ; in the Cook Islands, where h is replaced with the glottal stop, it is ‘ Avaiki ; in the Hawaiian Islands, where w is used and k is replaced with the glottal stop, the largest island of the group is named Hawai ‘ i ; in Samoa, where s has not been substituted by h, v is used instead of w, and k is replaced with the glottal stop, the largest island is called Savai ' i. In the Society Islands, k and ng are replaced by the glottal stop, so the name for the ancestral homeland is pronounced Havai ‘ i.

Malietoa Tanumafili II, GCMG, CBE ( 4 January 1913 – 11 May 2007 ), also called Susuga, was the Malietoa, the title of one of Samoa's four paramount chiefs, and the head of state, or O le Ao o le Malo, a position that he held for life, of Samoa from 1962 to 2007.

The population of the Samoan Islands is approximately 250, 000, sharing a common language, Samoan, a culture, known as fa ' a Samoa and an indigenous form of governance called fa ' amatai.

The dispute led to the eventual formation of a resistance movement called Mau a Pule on Savai ' i by Lauaki Namulauulu Mamoe, one of the Samoan leaders from Safotulafai who was deposed by the German Governor of Samoa, Wilhelm Solf.

As well as deposing members of the Malo o Samoa, Solf called in two German warships as a show of strength.

In Samoa, similar garlands fashioned of entire flowers, buds, seeds, nuts, plant fibers, leaves, ferns, seashells, or flower petals are called " asoa " or " ula ", while single flowers or clusters worn in the hair or on the ear are called sei.

Hyrum Rex Lee ( April 8, 1910 – July 26, 2001 ), usually called H. Rex Lee, was the last non-elected Governor of American Samoa.

He scored his debut international try against Samoa in Brisbane in the 2003 Rugby World Cup, after he was called into the South African squad as a late replacement.

It is the national bird of Samoa and is called the Manumea.

In all, the Samoan colony was on its way to self-sufficiency and actually reached that achievement just before Solf was called to Berlin and was succeeded by Erich Schultz as Governor of German Samoa.

It is also found in Samoa, where it is the national flower, and is locally called " teuila.

The summit of the island, called Lata Mountain, is at an elevation of, making it the highest point in American Samoa.

It brews a German type lager beer, called Vailima after a village in Samoa.

In Polynesian mythology ( specifically: Samoa ), Fetu (" star ") is the god of the night.

In Kiribati mythology ( specifically: Kiribati ), Kai-n-Tiku-Aba (" tree of many branches ") is a sacred tree located in Samoa, which grew on the back of a man named Na Abitu.

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