Countries
Key facts
- Capital
- Pago Pago
- Region
- Oceania, Polynesia
- Population
- 46,029 (2025)
- Area
- 199 km²
- Currency
- United States dollar (USD)
- Languages
- English, Samoan, Tonga (Tonga Islands)
- Calling code
- +1-684
- Internet domain
- .as
- ISO codes
- AS, ASM, 016
- Time zone
- UTC-11:00
- United Nations
- Not a member
- Postal code pattern
- #####-#### (# = digit, @ = letter)
Land and position
American Samoa covers about 199 square kilometres. By area it ranks 223rd among the 250 countries and territories on this site. It is a little smaller than Cook Islands and a little larger than Marshall Islands. It has no land border with any other country. Its centre lies at about 14° south, 170° west, in the southern hemisphere.
People
About 46,029 people live in American Samoa (World Bank, 2025). That makes it the 213th most populous of the 246 places on this site with a figure. On average there are 231 people to each square kilometre. About 81 percent of people live in towns and cities (World Bank, 2025). A baby born there can expect to live about 73 years (World Bank, 2024). Languages listed for it: English, Samoan, Tonga (Tonga Islands). A person from American Samoa is called American Samoan.
Money and economy
The currency is the United States dollar (code USD, symbol $). It is also the main currency of British Indian Ocean Territory, British Virgin Islands, Caribbean Netherlands, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guam, Marshall Islands, Northern Mariana Islands and 7 more. The World Bank puts the size of its economy (GDP) at about US$ 871 million (2022), which is about US$ 18,017 for each person (2022).
Time
American Samoa uses one time zone, UTC-11:00 (Pacific/Pago Pago). Clocks stay the same all year: there is no daylight saving time.
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Offsets are for January 2026. See Time Zones for a converter.
Largest cities
| City | People |
|---|---|
| Pago Pago | 11,500 |
City figures are from GeoNames and count the city itself, not the wider urban area. They can be some years old, so use them to see the order of size.
More in Polynesia
Cook Islands, French Polynesia, Niue, Pitcairn Islands, Samoa, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu. See the whole region.
Figures were collected on 11 November 2026 from the World Bank, GeoNames and the open countries data set. See About and data sources. Borders and names follow those sources and do not express any view on disputed territory.