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Samoa
Quick Facts
Region:
Australia and the South Pacific
Full Name:
Independent State of Samoa
Capital City:
Apia
Language Spoken:
Samoan (Polynesian),
English
Personnel risk: LOW
Evacuation risk: LOW
New Zealand occupied the German protectorate of Western Samoa at the outbreak of World War I in 1914. It continued to administer the islands as a mandate and then as a trust territory until 1962, when the islands became the first Polynesian nation to reestablish independence in the 20th century. The country dropped the "Western" from its name in 1997.