Samoa, officially the Independent State of Samoa and until 1997 known as Western Samoa, is a Polynesian island country consisting of two main islands (Savai’I and Upolu); two smaller, inhabited islands (Manono and Apolima); and several uninhabited smaller islands. Samoa is located (40 mi) west of American Samoa, northeast of Tonga, northeast of Fiji, and southwest of Hawaii. The capital city is Apia. The Lapita people discovered and settled the Samoan Islands around 3,500 years ago. They developed a Samoan language and cultural identity.  

Samoa is a unitary parliamentary democracy, and the sovereign state is member of the Commonwealth of Nations. Western Samoa was admitted to the United Nations in 1976.  The country was a colony of the German Empire from 1899 to 1915, then came under a joint British and New Zealand colonial administration until 1962, when it became independent.

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