Where is Samoa?Also write main activity of Samoa.

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Samoa is a country comprised of Samoan Islands that are located in southern Pacific Ocean. The main activity of the people of Samoa is agriculture and fishing which employs two-third of its people. Coconut is the main crop along with sugarcane. The people live in communities and their cultural activities include traditional dance and specialised architecture.

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CAPITAL: Apia

FLAG: The upper-left quarter of the flag is blue and bears five white, five-rayed stars representing the Southern Cross; the remainder of the flag is red.

ANTHEM: The Flag of Freedom.

MONETARY UNIT: The Samoan tala (ws$) is a paper currency of 100 sene. There are coins of 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, and 50 sene and 1 tala, and notes of 2, 5, 10, 20, and 100 talas. ws$1 = us$0.35962 (or us$1 = ws$2.7807) as of 2004.

WEIGHTS AND MEASURES: British weights and measures are used.

HOLIDAYS: New Year's, 1–2 January; Independence Holidays (first three workdays of June); Anzac Day, 25 April; Christmas Day, 25 December; Boxing Day, 26 December. Movable religious holidays are Good Friday, Easter Monday, and Whitmonday.

TIME: 1 am = noon GMT.

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Samoa can lay claim to some of the most stunningly beautiful islands in the South Pacific.

It's easy to understand, once you’ve climbed its steep mountain trails, lazed on its sugar-white beaches, witnessed the kaleidoscopic hues of reef fish, and wandered through its lush tropical wilderness.

It’s rare to meet Samoans in a hurry. Perhaps this is because the lush fertile geography and benevolent climate are so good at providing everything the people need. But they also know how to ‘pull out all the stops’ with their famous hospitality.

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Their occupation is Muli fanua

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History
Samoa before the arrival of Europeans
Archeologists place the earliest human settlement of the Samoan archipelago at around 1500 B.C. This date is based upon the ancient lapita pottery shards found throughout the islands. Samoan oral history, however, extends only as far back as 1000 A.D. Whatever occurred between 1500 B.C. and 1000 A.D. remains a mystery, though this may have been the period of great migrations that led to the settlement of present-day Polynesia: Samoa is recognized as the center of Polynesia, whence people migrated eastward to the Marquesas, southward to Niue and the Pukapuka islands of Rarotonga, and northward to the Tokelau and Tuvalu island groups; in all these islands, oral tradition is maintained of ancestoral voyages from the Samoan islands. These migrations reflect the extraordinary courage of these seafaring people in navigating without instruments to sail throughout the vast Pacific Ocean.
Another mystery is why the making of pottery suddenly stopped. There is no oral tradition in reference to pottery use, but it abounds with proverbs on the starmounts used in the ancient sport of pigeon snarling, once popular among Samoan nobility. Linguistically, the Samoan language is part of the Austronesian language family.

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Independence
From 1908, with the establishment of the Mau movement ("opinion movement"), Western Samoans began to assert their claim to independence. The early beginnings of the national Mau movement began in 1908 with the 'Mau a Pule' resistance on Savai'i, led by orator chief Lauaki Namulauulu Mamoe. Lauaki and Mau a Pule chiefs, wives and children were exiled to Saipan in 1909. Many died in exile.