Map of Samoa

Samoa is located in Oceania. Its territory lies in the southern and western hemispheres, centred near 13.6° S, 172.3° W. It is an island nation and shares no land borders with any other country, so every approach to it is made by sea or by air. Within Oceania, a continent of 14 countries bordered by the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean and the Southern Ocean, Samoa is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Samoa is an island state with no land borders. The nearest countries are reached across open water rather than over a shared frontier.

Samoa covers about 2,842 km² (1,097 sq mi). That makes it the 169th-largest country in the world by area and the 7th-largest in Oceania, larger by area than 7 of the continent’s 14 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 205,557, the 178th-largest in the world and the 7th-largest in Oceania, accounting for about 0.4% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Samoa has an average population density of about 72 people per km². Among the 14 countries of Oceania it stands 7th by population and 7th by area.

The seat of government is Apia, and the official currency is the Samoan tālā (WST, T), and the main official languages are English and Samoan. Traffic drives on the left, and the country observes the time zone UTC+13:00.

Samoa carries the ISO country codes WS and WSM, dials on the international calling code +685 and uses the .ws internet domain.

Samoa has no land neighbours. It is an island nation, so the countries nearest to it are reached across open water rather than over a shared border. Its position at 13.6° S, 172.3° W places it about 1,508 km from the equator, in the southern and western hemispheres, within the wider region of Oceania.

The interactive map above is centred on 13.6° S, 172.3° W and opens at zoom level 8, framing Samoa within Oceania. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Apia. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Samoa lies about 1,508 km from the equator, in the southern and western hemispheres of the globe. As an island, its full extent is best seen by zooming out to take in the surrounding sea.

Samoa keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+13:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +13:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Samoan tālā (WST, T).

The official languages are English and Samoan, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the left-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +685 and websites commonly use the .ws internet domain.

In short, Samoa is an island nation in Oceania, with no land borders. Its capital is Apia. Samoa has a population of about 205,557 and covers around 2,842 km² (1,097 sq mi), ranking it 178th in the world by population and 169th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Samoa.

The flag of Samoa has a red field. A blue rectangle, bearing a representation of the Southern Cross made up of five large and one smaller five-pointed white stars, is superimposed in the canton.

The flag of Samoa is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.