Travel & technology
Electric power
- Plug shape
- Voltage
- 230V, 50Hz
Phone dialing
- Code to call Samoa
- +685
What every visitor should know about Samoa:
- Money
- The currency is the Samoan tala (WST). 1 WST is worth about US$0.40, or €0.29.
- Crime
- CrimeSafe Travel Score™: 4.5 out of 5 (Very safe)
Areas of concern:
- Mugging
- Pick-pocketing / bag-snatching
- Capital
- Apia
- Tap water
- Not recommended. Water is usually drinkable in large cities, but quality is uneven.
Samoa facts and figures:
People
- Population
- 219,998
- Language
- Samoan (Polynesian), English
- Ethnicity
- Samoan 92.6%, Euronesians (persons of European and Polynesian blood) 7%, Europeans 0.4%
Economy
- GDP
- US$5,000 (per capita)