What the records say
- When
- 1962
- Kind
- Territorial change
- Where
- Western Samoa
- Coordinates
- 13.64° S, 172.44° W
- Process
- unknown
- Type
- Unknown process (often independences)
- Pop
- 116000
- Area km2
- 2823
- Gaining
- Samoa
- Losing
- New Zealand
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Samoa
Island country in the Pacific Ocean
Samoa, officially the Independent State of Samoa, is an island country in Polynesia, a part of Oceania, which is in the South Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main islands, two smaller, inhabited islands, and several smaller, uninhabited islands, including the Aleipata Islands.
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The source
- COW Territorial Change v6Correlates of War ProjectCorrelates of War: free use with citation