Local government in American Samoa
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American Samoa is administratively divided into three districts ( Western, Eastern and Manu‘a) and two unorganized atolls (
Swains Island Swains Island (; Tokelauan: ''Olohega'' ; Samoan: ''Olosega'' ) is a remote coral atoll in the Tokelau Islands in the South Pacific Ocean. The island is the subject of an ongoing territorial dispute between Tokelau and the United States, whi ...
and
Rose Atoll Rose Atoll, sometimes called Rose Island or Motu O Manu ("Bird Island") by people of the nearby Manu'a Islands, is an oceanic atoll within the U.S. territory of American Samoa. An uninhabited wildlife refuge, it is the southernmost point belo ...
). The districts are subdivided into 15 counties, which are composed of 76 villages. For statistical purposes, the United States Census Bureau counts the three districts and two unorganized atolls as five county equivalents, while treating the actual counties as
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s.States, Counties, and Statistically Equivalent Entities
United States Census Bureau.
American Samoa has only one U.S. zip code: 96799.American Samoa ZIP Codes
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Divisions


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Statistics

The populations below are from the 2020 census, and the areas are from the 2010 census. * *


Local government structure

Amata Coleman Radewagen Amata Catherine Coleman Radewagen (born December 29, 1947), commonly called Aumua Amata , is an American Samoan politician who is the current delegate for the United States House of Representatives from American Samoa. Radewagen, a Republican, w ...
's congressional website said the following about American Samoa's districts:https://radewagen.house.gov/about/our-district Radewagen.house.gov. Our District. American Samoa - A Territory of the United States. Retrieved September 7, 2019. The
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says the following about the structure of villages in American Samoa:https://www.nps.gov/npsa/learn/historyculture/people.htm U.S. National Park Service. National Park of American Samoa. History & Culture - People. Retrieved September 7, 2019.


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