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Samoa and Samoan Islands

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Difference between Samoa and Samoan Islands

Samoa vs. Samoan Islands

Samoa, officially the Independent State of Samoa (Malo Saʻoloto Tutoʻatasi o Sāmoa; Sāmoa) and, until 4 July 1997, known as Western Samoa, is a unitary parliamentary democracy with eleven administrative divisions. The Samoan Islands are an archipelago covering in the central South Pacific, forming part of Polynesia and the wider region of Oceania.

Similarities between Samoa and Samoan Islands

Samoa and Samoan Islands have 55 things in common (in Unionpedia): Aleipata Islands, American Samoa, Apia, Apolima, Apolima Strait, Archaeology of Samoa, Archipelago, Architecture of Samoa, Copra, Fa'a Samoa, Fa'amatai, Fanuatapu, German Empire, German Samoa, Hawaii, Hawaii (island), Lapita culture, League of Nations, Lotofaga, Louis Antoine de Bougainville, Manono Island, Mantle plume, Manu'a, Mata o le Afi, Mau movement, Mauga Afi, Maui, Mount Matavanu, Mulifanua, Nafanua, ..., Namua, New Zealand, Nu'ulopa, Nu'ulua, Nu'usafe'e Island, Nu'utele, Polynesia, Polynesians, Samoa hotspot, Samoan Civil War, Samoan culture, Samoan language, Samoan tālā, Samoans, Savai'i, Second Samoan Civil War, Siege of Apia, Silisili, Tonga, Treaty of Berlin (1889), Tripartite Convention, Tutuila, United States dollar, Upolu, 2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami. Expand index (25 more) »

Aleipata Islands

The Aleipata Islands is a group of four uninhabited islands off the eastern end (the historical Aleipata region) of Upolu Island, Samoa, with an aggregate area of 1.68 km²).

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American Samoa

American Samoa (Amerika Sāmoa,; also Amelika Sāmoa or Sāmoa Amelika) is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the South Pacific Ocean, southeast of Samoa.

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Apia

Apia is the capital and the largest city of Samoa.

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Apolima

Apolima is the smallest of the four inhabited islands of Samoa and situated in the Apolima Strait, between the country's two largest islands Upolu to the east and Savai'i to the west.

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Apolima Strait

The Apolima Strait is about 13 km wide and separates the two largest islands of Samoa, the island of Savai'i to the northwest, and Upolu to the southeast.

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Archaeology of Samoa

Archaeology of Samoa began with the first systematic survey of archaeological remains on Savai'i island by Jack Golson in 1957.

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Archipelago

An archipelago, sometimes called an island group or island chain, is a chain, cluster or collection of islands, or sometimes a sea containing a small number of scattered islands.

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Architecture of Samoa

The architecture of Samoa is characterised by openness, with the design mirroring the culture and life of the Samoan people who inhabit the Samoa Islands.

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Copra

Copra is the dried meat or kernel of the coconut, which is the fruit of the coconut palm (Cocos nucifera).

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Fa'a Samoa

Fa'a Samoa in the Samoan language means The Samoan Way, and describes the socio-political & traditional-customary way of life of the Samoan culture.

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Fa'amatai

Fa'amatai is the chiefly system of Samoa, central to the organization of Samoan society.

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Fanuatapu

Fanuatapu is an uninhabited island which consists of a volcanic tuff ring, situated off the eastern tip of Upolu, Samoa.

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German Empire

The German Empire (Deutsches Kaiserreich, officially Deutsches Reich),Herbert Tuttle wrote in September 1881 that the term "Reich" does not literally connote an empire as has been commonly assumed by English-speaking people.

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German Samoa

German Samoa (Deutsch-Samoa) was a German protectorate from 1900 to 1914, consisting of the islands of Upolu, Savai'i, Apolima and Manono, now wholly within the independent state Samoa, formerly Western Samoa.

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Hawaii

Hawaii (Hawaii) is the 50th and most recent state to have joined the United States, having received statehood on August 21, 1959.

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Hawaii (island)

Hawaiʻi is the largest island located in the U.S. state of Hawaii.

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Lapita culture

The Lapita culture was a prehistoric Pacific Ocean people who flourished in the Pacific Islands from about 1600 BCE to about 500 BCE.

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League of Nations

The League of Nations (abbreviated as LN in English, La Société des Nations abbreviated as SDN or SdN in French) was an intergovernmental organisation founded on 10 January 1920 as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War.

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Lotofaga

Lotofaga is a village on the south coast of Upolu island in Samoa.

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Louis Antoine de Bougainville

Louis-Antoine, Comte de Bougainville (12 November 1729 – 31 August 1811) was a French admiral and explorer.

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Manono Island

Manono is an island of Samoa, situated in the Apolima Strait between the main islands of Savai'i and Upolu, 3.4 km WNW off Lefatu Cape, the westernmost point of Upolu.

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Mantle plume

A mantle plume is an upwelling of abnormally hot rock within the Earth's mantle, first proposed by J. Tuzo Wilson in 1963.

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Manu'a

Manua, or the Manua Islands Group (Samoan: Manua tele), in the Samoan Islands, consists of three main islands: Taokinau, Ofu and Olosega.

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Mata o le Afi

Mata o le Afi is a volcano on the island of Savai'i in the South Pacific nation of Samoa.

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Mau movement

The Mau was a non-violent movement for Samoan independence from colonial rule during the first half of the 20th century.

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Mauga Afi

Mauna Afi is a volcanic mountain on the island of Savai'i in Samoa.

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Maui

The island of Maui (Hawaiian) is the second-largest of the Hawaiian Islands at 727.2 square miles (1,883 km2) and is the 17th-largest island in the United States.

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Mount Matavanu

Mt Matavanu is an active volcano on the island of Savai'i in Samoa.

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Mulifanua

Mulifanua is a village on the north-western tip of the island of Upolu, in Samoa.

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Nafanua

Nafanua is a famous Samoan Warrior Princess and a legend in Polynesian mythology.

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Namua

Namu'a is a small uninhabited island off the east coast of Upolu island in Samoa.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is a sovereign island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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Nu'ulopa

Nu'ulopa is a small uninhabited island in the Apolima Strait between the islands of Upolu and Savai'i in Samoa.

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Nu'ulua

Nu'ulua, not to be confused with Nu'ulua 200 meters west of Ofu, is an island in Samoa in the Aleipata Islands situated more than 1.3 km from the eastern end of Upolu in Samoa.

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Nu'usafe'e Island

Nu'usafe'e Island is a small uninhabited island in Samoa.

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Nu'utele

Nu'utele is an island which consists of a volcanic tuff ring situated 1.3 km off the eastern end of Upolu island, Samoa.

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Polynesia

Polynesia (from πολύς polys "many" and νῆσος nēsos "island") is a subregion of Oceania, made up of more than 1,000 islands scattered over the central and southern Pacific Ocean.

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Polynesians

The Polynesians are a subset of Austronesians native to the islands of Polynesia that speak the Polynesian languages, a branch of the Oceanic subfamily of the Austronesian language family.

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Samoa hotspot

The Samoa hotspot is a volcanic hotspot located in the south Pacific Ocean.

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Samoan Civil War

The First Samoan Civil War refers to the conflict between rival Samoan factions in the Samoan Islands of the South Pacific.

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Samoan culture

The traditional culture of Samoa is a communal way of life based on Fa'a Samoa, the unique socio-political culture.

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Samoan language

Samoan (Gagana faʻa Sāmoa or Gagana Sāmoa – IPA) is the language of the Samoan Islands, comprising the Independent State of Samoa and the United States territory of American Samoa.

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Samoan tālā

The tālā is the currency of Samoa.

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Samoans

Samoans or Samoan people (tagata Sāmoa) are a Polynesian ethnic group native to the Samoan Islands, an archipelago in Polynesia, who speak the Samoan language.

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Savai'i

Savaii is the largest (area 1,694 km2) and highest (Mt Silisili at 1,858 m) island in Samoa and the Samoan Islands chain.

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Second Samoan Civil War

The Second Samoan Civil War was a conflict that reached a head in 1898 when Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States were locked in dispute over who should have control over the Samoan island chain, located in the South Pacific Ocean.

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Siege of Apia

The Siege of Apia, or the Battle of Apia, occurred during the Second Samoan Civil War in March 1899 at Apia.

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Silisili

Mount Silisili is the highest peak in Samoa and the Samoa Islands chain.

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Tonga

Tonga (Tongan: Puleʻanga Fakatuʻi ʻo Tonga), officially the Kingdom of Tonga, is a Polynesian sovereign state and archipelago comprising 169 islands, of which 36 are inhabited.

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Treaty of Berlin (1889)

The Treaty of Berlin (1889) was the concluding document of the conference at Berlin in 1889 on Samoa.

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Tripartite Convention

The Tripartite Convention of 1899 concluded the Second Samoan Civil War, resulting in the formal partition of the Samoan archipelago into a German colony and a United States territory.

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Tutuila

Tutuila is the largest and the main island of American Samoa in the archipelago of Samoan Islands.

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United States dollar

The United States dollar (sign: $; code: USD; also abbreviated US$ and referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, or American dollar) is the official currency of the United States and its insular territories per the United States Constitution since 1792.

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Upolu

Upolu is an island in Samoa, formed by a massive basaltic shield volcano which rises from the seafloor of the western Pacific Ocean.

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2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami

The 2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami took place on 29 September 2009 in the southern Pacific Ocean adjacent to the Kermadec-Tonga subduction zone.

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Samoa and Samoan Islands Comparison

Samoa has 321 relations, while Samoan Islands has 108. As they have in common 55, the Jaccard index is 12.82% = 55 / (321 + 108).

References

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