American Samoa

American Samoa

American Samoa ranks 214th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Comoros, Djibouti, and Seychelles. Memorable people born in present day American Samoa include Umaga, Lolo Matalasi Moliga, and Tulsi Gabbard. Memorable people who died in American Samoa include Chandra Bahadur Dangi. American Samoa has been the birth place of many politicians, and athletes and the death place of many celebrities.

American Samoa is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the Polynesia region of the South Pacific Ocean. Centered on 14.3°S 170.7°W, it is 40 miles (64 km) southeast of the island country of Samoa, east of the International Date Line and the Wallis and Futuna Islands, west of the Cook Islands, north of Tonga, and some 310 miles (500 km) south of Tokelau. American Samoa is the southernmost territory of the United States, situated 2,200 miles (3,500 km) southwest of the U.S. state of Hawaii, and one of two U.S. territories south of the Equator, along with the uninhabited Jarvis Island. Read more on Wikipedia