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Samoa, officially the Independent State of Samoa, is an island country in Polynesia, part of Oceania, in the South Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main islands, two smaller, inhabited islands, and several smaller, uninhabited islands, including the Aleipata Islands. Samoa is located 64 km west of American Samoa, 889 km northeast of Tonga, 1,152 km northeast of Fiji, 483 km east of Wallis and Futuna, 1,151 km southeast of Tuvalu, 519 km south of Tokelau, 4,190 km southwest of Hawaii, and 610 km northwest of Niue. The capital and largest city is Apia.
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History
The flag of Samoa is a red field with a blue canton bearing five white five-pointed stars arranged to form the Southern Cross constellation. Paramount chiefs Malietoa Tanumafili II and Tupua Tamasese Meaʻole designed the flag with four stars in 1948, when Samoa was under the stewardship of New Zealand as the Territory of Western Samoa. The smaller fifth star was added in 1949.
Design & symbolism
The Act does not assign official symbolism to the flag's colours or design elements, but Smith and Samoan scholar of indigenous studies Musuiaiga Neil Sitagata-Tapu report that red stands for courage, white for purity, and blue for freedom.
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