American Samoa
This page was generated on 20 September 2026 at 12:27 UTC. The bundled facts on it were retrieved between 13 July 2026 and 5 August 2026. Aletheia's source record for emergency numbers records no retrieval date, so it is not covered by that range.
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Country outlines on Aletheia come from Natural Earth's 1:10-million public-domain boundary set, made by volunteer cartographers and supported by NACIS. Where a border is disputed, the line drawn is one cartographic convention among the competing claims — not a settled fact, and not Aletheia taking a side. Disputes we can source are listed rather than hidden inside the outline.
American Samoa is filled. The one other country reaching this view is drawn in a dimmer tone — dimmed, not hidden. Unpainted ground is where no boundary in this dataset falls: open water, or land none of them claims.
The hatched area is contested, and Aletheia takes no position on it. The hatching marks where the dispute lies — including where it falls inside the outline — and it is the same set the list below names. One of them is smaller than this map can draw and is marked with a fixed-size diamond: the diamond is its position, not its size or shape.
2 parts of American Samoa in this source are smaller than a pixel at this scale and are not drawn. Nothing larger than that is missing, and they have not been enlarged to make them visible.
Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m. Disputed areas: Natural Earth (public domain). Equirectangular projection, standard parallel 12.8°S — distances and areas away from that parallel are stretched. View: 171.4°W–167.8°W, 14.8°S–10.7°S.
Disputed areas involving American Samoa
One area whose status is contested. Aletheia takes no position on it. It is described in the source’s own words.
Swains Island · Disputed
Admin. by American Samoa for U.S.A.; Claimed by Tokelau
Source: Natural Earth’s disputed-areas layer (public domain). The list is not exhaustive, and inclusion or omission is not a judgment about any claim’s merit. What has happened in these places is not described here — that needs a source Aletheia has not yet been able to read.
News sources
not yet researchedNo news source from this country is in Aletheia's registry yet. Nobody has assessed the media landscape here — that is a gap in our work, not a finding about this country.
Official alerts
no source connectedAletheia's alerts screen has no entry for this country, so no official warning source is connected here. That is a limit on our coverage, not a statement that this country issues no warnings.
National legislature
no source connectedNo official legislature website has been verified for this country. Absence here means no domain-verified authoritative source was found — never that no legislature exists.
Local time
One time zone.
The current time needs JavaScript, so it is not shown here rather than shown wrong.
Conditions at the capital
Right now in Pago Pago
25°C / 78°FClearwind 12 km/h / 8 mph
Checked 12 minutes ago
Conditions at the capital, not across the country.
Weather from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)
Pago Pago, 2026-09-20Sunrise 6:13 AM · sunset 6:18 PM12h 05m of daylightWaxing gibbous, 65% lit
At a glance
- ISO code
- ASMuncited
- Driving side
- rightuncited
- Mains voltage
- 120 Vuncited
- Capital
- Pago Pagouncited
- Official languages
- English, Samoanuncited
- Plug types
- Type A (NEMA 1-15), Type B (NEMA 5-15), Type F (Schuko), Type I (AS/NZS 3112)cited · letters are the IEC classification
- Official website
- americansamoa.gov ↗From the source's "official website" statement, kept here because the site is a government portal. We have not tested whether it loads.uncited
Population and economy
Population
Population of American Samoa: the UN's 2025 estimate is 46,029 people. The page shows that figure carried forward at about 2.0 fewer a day. It is a projection, not a count, and the figure shown changes as time passes.
Not a count. This is the UN's 2025 estimate carried forward at the rate implied by the two most recent published years — arithmetic, not a measurement. Nobody counts a country continuously, and the true figure right now is unknown.
Where this number comes from
- Base figure
- 46,029 people
- For the year
- 2025 — a mid-year estimate, so it describes 1 July 2025
- Compared with
- 46,765 people in 2024
- Rate applied
- about 2.0 fewer a day (-736 a year)
- How that rate was found
- The difference between the 2024 and 2025 estimates, divided by the time between them. It is our arithmetic on two published figures — the source does not publish this rate.
- Carried forward
- 0 days beyond the base figure's date
- Source
- UN World Population Prospects and national statistical offices, compiled by the World Bank · source updated 2026-07-13
- The source's own definition
- The values shown are midyear estimates.
THIS NUMBER IS NOT A MEASUREMENT, AND ITS MOVEMENT IS NOT NEWS. No country counts its population continuously. A census is periodic, and every figure between censuses — including the estimate this starts from — is a projection. What you are watching is that projection's trend applied to the clock on your phone. It moves because time passes, not because anyone was born or died. Treat the digits beyond the first few as arithmetic rather than knowledge: the trend is real, the precision is not.
- Population
- 46,0292025
- GDP
- 871,000,0002022
- GDP per capita
- 18,0172022
- Life expectancy at birth
- 73.0 years2024
- Exports
- 47.0%2022
- Imports
- 77.7%2022
Compiled by the World Bank from: World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wpp/, publisher: UN Population Division · source updated 2026-07-13 · each figure is dated because the most recent value was chosen by us, not by the source
In this country's own words
Samoa, Let God Be First
the state's official mottovia Wikidata (CC0) Sāmoa, Muamua Le Atua
the state's official mottovia Wikidata (CC0) Also recorded in Welsh.
- Founded
- 1899
- National anthem
- The Star-Spangled Banner
Everything in this section is quoted, with its source. Aletheia does not write about a country's history, culture or religion in its own words — where there is nothing to quote, there is no section.
World Heritage Sites
Coverage limitedWe hold no World Heritage entry for this country, but our read of the register is not known to be complete, so this is not a finding of none. 6 inscribed sites are in the register and reach no page here — the source records no country for them, so they could belong to any country. That is why an empty result anywhere cannot be read as an absence.
Emergency numbers
- 911
Shown in numerical order, which is not an order of priority.
Listed by the source, mostly from ITU-T E.129. We have not dialled these numbers, and where a service is named it is the source's description rather than ours.
Explore this country
Regions
First-level regions as GeoNames lists them, shown alphabetically · each page computes daylight at the region’s own coordinates
Currency
USD
News coverage here is counted from Aletheia’s bundled source registry plus the sources the Host had admitted as of 2026-09-14. A source admitted since that date has not reached this page yet, so this is a floor rather than a total.