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American Samoa
| Location |
S Pacific Ocean, NNE of New Zealand |
| Latitude and longitude |
14 20 S, 170 00 W |
| Sovereignty |
United States of America |
| Political status notes |
A territory of the United States of America; officially, "Territory of American Samoa" |
| Population |
62,600 |
|
Census notes
|
est. July 1, 2004 |
| Land area in square kilometers |
200 |
| Capital |
Pago Pago |
Fundamental legal document(s) online
|
| Revised
Constitution of American Samoa, from the American Samoa
Bar Association |
| Treaties,
Cessions, and Federal Laws, from the American Samoa Bar
Association |
Other legal documents online
|
|
American
Samoa Code Annotated, from the American Samoa Bar Association |
| American Samoa Reports -
Third Series
(1997 to date), - Second
Series (1978 - 1996), and - First
Series (1901 - 1974), from the American Samoa Bar Association |
| American
Samoa Digest,
a guide to the court decisions in American Samoa Reports, from the American Samoa Bar Association |
| American
Samoa Administrative Code (Regulations), from the American Samoa Bar Association |
| Rules
of Court, from the American Samoa Bar Association |
Sources and other useful websites
|
| American
Samoa, map and basic demographic and economic data from the
South Pacific Island Web Atlas, provided by the GIS Unit of the
University of the South Pacific |
| American
Samoa, Office of Insular Affairs, U.S. Department of the
Interior, Washington, D.C. |
| American
Samoa, from Radio Australia’s Charting the Pacific |
| American
Samoa, from Radio Australia’s Time to Talk |
| American
Samoa Bar Association Legal Resources |
| American
Samoa, Department of Commerce, Office of Tourism |
| ASG On-Line, from
the Office of the Governor of American Samoa |
| Bank of Hawaii, Economics Research Center, American
Samoa Report (1997) (PDF 605K) |
| Dependencies
and Areas of Special Sovereignty, Office of the Geographer and
Global Issues, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, U.S. Department of
State, Washington, D.C. |
| Rose
Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service |
| Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Pacific
Island Populations 2004 (Microsoft Excel spreadsheet 78K) |
| U.S. Census Bureau,
2000 Population Counts for American Samoa
(press release) |
| U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, The
World Factbook |
| More
ISLAND LAW links for American Samoa |
Selected articles on law and political status
|
| Curfews,
Culture, and Custom in American Samoa: An Analytical Map
for Applying the U.S. Constitution to U.S. Territories, by
Daniel E. Hall, in volume 2 of the Asia-Pacific Law & Policy
Journal, at page 69 (Winter 2001)(PDF 151K) |
| Second-Class
Citizens: The Separate and Unequal Treatment of Our Far-Flung
Territories, by Chris Mooney, in Legal Affairs (July-August
2003) |
| United Nations Secretariat, Working
Paper on American Samoa, prepared for for the Special Committee of the
U.N. General Assembly on the Situation with Regard to the Implementation
of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries
and Peoples (A/AC.109/2004/6, March 16, 2004) (PDF) |
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