Countries
Key facts
- Capital
- Apia
- Region
- Oceania, Polynesia
- Population
- 219,306 (2025)
- Area
- 2,944 km²
- Currency
- Samoan tālā (WST)
- Languages
- Samoan, English
- Calling code
- +685
- Internet domain
- .ws
- ISO codes
- WS, WSM, 882
- Time zone
- UTC+13:00
- United Nations
- Member state
- Postal code pattern
- AS 96799 (# = digit, @ = letter)
Land and position
Samoa covers about 2,944 square kilometres. By area it ranks 180th among the 250 countries and territories on this site. It is a little smaller than South Georgia and a little larger than Luxembourg. It has no land border with any other country. Its centre lies at about 14° south, 172° west, in the southern hemisphere.
People
About 219,306 people live in Samoa (World Bank, 2025). That makes it the 188th most populous of the 246 places on this site with a figure. On average there are 74 people to each square kilometre. About 18 percent of people live in towns and cities (World Bank, 2025). A baby born there can expect to live about 72 years (World Bank, 2024). Languages listed for it: Samoan, English. A person from Samoa is called Samoan.
Money and economy
The currency is the Samoan tālā (code WST, symbol T). The World Bank puts the size of its economy (GDP) at about US$ 1.29 billion (2025), which is about US$ 5,873 for each person (2025).
Time
Samoa uses one time zone, UTC+13:00 (Pacific/Apia). 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 |
|---|---|
| Apia | 40,407 |
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
American Samoa, Cook Islands, French Polynesia, Niue, Pitcairn Islands, 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.