American Samoa Counties

Counties of American Samoa

The constitution of American Samoa has a slightly different list of counties from the one below. The constitution replaces Tualauta county with Fofo and Ma'upu counties, all of them in Western district. I haven't found any confirmation for the list of counties in the constitution. It's also noteworthy that the constitutional revision of 1967 bears the signatures of delegates from fourteen counties and one island, exactly the same set that are in my list below.

American Samoa is divided into districts, which in turn are divided into counties. I have looked up the 2000 census figures for the counties of American Samoa.

County	HASC	MCD	Pop-2000	Pop-1990	Pop-1930	Area(km.²)
Faleasao	`AS.MA.FA`	`010`	135	246	279	12
Fitiuta	`AS.MA.FI`	`020`	358	454	402	17
Ituau	`AS.ET.IT`	`020`	4,312	3,655	750	13
Lealataua	`AS.WT.LL`	`010`	5,684	5,106	1,256	25
Leasina	`AS.WT.LS`	`020`	1,739	1,470	272	17
Ma'oputasi	`AS.ET.MA`	`030`	11,695	10,640	2,559	19
Ofu	`AS.MA.OF`	`030`	289	353	466	7
Olosega	`AS.MA.OL`	`040`	216	225	438	5
Sa'ole	`AS.ET.SA`	`040`	1,768	1,643	471	6
Sua	`AS.ET.SU`	`050`	3,417	3,116	622	18
Swains	`AS.UU.SW`	`010`	37	16	99	2
Ta'u	`AS.MA.TA`	`050`	380	436	562	16
Tualatai	`AS.WT.TI`	`030`	2,987	2,568	437	7
Tualauta	`AS.WT.TU`	`040`	22,025	14,724	812	26
Vaifanua	`AS.ET.VA`	`055`	2,249	2,121	630	11
15 divisions			57,291	46,773	10,055	200
County: Except Swains, which is a village. HASC: Hierarchical administrative subdivision codes. The middle two letters identify the district. For key, see "Administrative Subdivisions of Countries". MCD: Minor Civil Division code, as assigned by the Census Bureau. Note: to get a unique code, these must be combined with the FIPS code for the district of American Samoa. Pop-2000: Census 2000-04-01 Pop-1990: Census 1990-04-01 Pop-1930: Census 1930-04-01

Territorial extent:

Tutuila Island contains all of the counties of Eastern (ET) and Western (WT) districts, except that Sa'ole is located partly on Tutuila and partly on Aunu'u Island. Vaifanua county has two sections, separated by Sua county.
Ofu and Olusega counties correspond to the islands of the same names, except that Ofu county also includes the small island of Nu'utele.
The other three counties of Manu'a (MA) district lie on Ta'u Island.
The Unorganized (UU) part of American Samoa consists of Swains Island and Rose Island. Rose Island has no administrative units on it. Its population is 0 and its area is 0.08 mi.² (51 acres). Swains village is an administrative unit coextensive with Swains Island. I have arbitrarily decided to annex Rose Island to Swains village for purposes of this table.

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