However, there are many New Zealand-born Samoans living in Australia, known as Samoan New Zealand Australians. Most Samoans in Australia live in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne. Most people of Samoan heritage speak Samoan as their first language.
In 2021, Claymore had the highest proportion of people speaking Samoan at home in Campbelltown City. This data includes all persons who speak Samoan at home as their main language, (regardless of where they were born). In Campbelltown City, Samoan speakers are a significant sized population.
In the 2016 Census, the top ancestry responses* that Samoa-born people reported were Samoan (19,629), German (2,020) and English (1,860). In the 2016 Census, Australians reported over 300 different ancestries. Of the total ancestry responses* 75,755 responses were towards Samoan ancestry.
Honolulu, Hawaii, has the largest Samoan population of over 12,000 making up over 2% of the city's population. There are large Samoan communities in Greater Los Angeles, Orange County, California, San Francisco Bay Area, and Greater San Diego counties in the state of California.
Most Samoans have lived in coastal villages since the region was first settled, and about four-fifths of the population is still rural. Apia, on the northern coast of Upolu, is the country's only town as well as the main port and centre for services and trade; it contains approximately one-fifth of Samoa's population.
The arrival of fast food restaurants and other contemporary food items on the islands are one of the issues responsible for the obesity in Samoa. The earliest photographs of Samoans provide visual proof of the native population's natural physique before the introduction of processed foods by Western society.
Samoa's social acceptance of fa'afafine has evolved from the tradition of raising some boys as girls. These boys, were not necessarily homosexual, or noticeably effeminate, and they may never have felt like dressing as women.
Pacific Islanders (PI) make up 0.13 percent of the U.S. population. Samoans are the second largest PI group, comprising 22.5% of the total PI population. The top three places of residence for Samoans are Hawaii, California, and Washington.
Many Pacific Islanders move to the United States in search of economic opportunity outside the Pacific. Pacific Islanders often come to Alaska for its large fishing industry, or are assigned there by the US military.
Based on the 5 largest Pacific cohorts in Australia, the largest Samoan, Tongan and Fijian community reside in New South Wales; with the largest group of Maori and Cook Islanders residing in Queensland (Figure 3).
Indigenous Australians are most closely related to the peoples of Melanesia, such as Papuans, with only remote ancestry in common with Polynesians.
Dominant groups
Analysis of the ancestry responses of the population in City of Sydney in 2021 shows that the top five ancestries nominated were: English (53,016 people or 25.0%) Australian (35,616 people or 16.8%) Chinese (35,572 people or 16.8%)
“While exploring the same topic using the latest Census data, an article from the ABC considered Point Cook in Victoria to be the country's most multicultural suburb based on the fact that the residents are from 86 different countries,” notes author Charlotte Pan.
Lidcombe is the most culturally diverse suburb in NSW
The western suburbs, especially the Canterbury-Bankstown area and the CBD area are the cultural diversity hubs of Sydney. Among the greater Sydney area, Lidcombe scores the lowest HHI which means it proudly can call itself the most culturally diverse area.
The average height and weight of American Samoan men - 177cm (5′9) and 103.2 kilograms (227 lbs). The average weight and height of American Samoan women - 167cm (5′5) and 98.1 kilograms (215.8 lbs).
The Pacific Islander population is highly concentrated in a few US states. Over half live in Hawaii (381,000), California (331,000), and Washington (110,000).
The United States had an interest in Samoa from early settlements in the 1830's. The U.S. government had a very strong interest in eastern Samoa, now American Samoa, primarily for its excellent harbor. US transport companies and land development interests were very active in Western Samoa, now an independent nation.
The Netherlands
Dutch people are the tallest people in the world. They have an average height of 175.62 cm (5 feet 7.96 inches). The Netherlands' King Willem-Alexander is 183 cm tall and Queen Maxim is 178 cm tall.
Ever wondered where the tallest men and women live in the world? Well, the answer is Netherlands. Also called a land of giants, the Netherlands is home to men with an average height of a Dutch man is 182.5 cm (about 6 feet). The average height of a Dutch woman is 168.7 cm (5.5 feet).
Characteristics of People from Samoa
The majority of the population of Samoa is ethnically Polynesian. Samoans have dark hair that is generally either straight or wavy. Curly hair is not usually seen. Their skin is darker than that of Caucasian people and lighter than the nearby ethnographic group of Melanesians.
Papuan Admixture in Samoa Differs from Other Polynesians.
The f4-ratio (39) estimates of Papuan ancestry proportions indicate that Samoans have an average of 24.36% Papuan ancestry, similar to a smaller sampling of Samoan genomes (38).
58.4% of adult (aged 18 years and over) women and 43.8% of adult men are living with obesity. Samoa's obesity prevalence is higher than the regional average of 31.7% for women and 30.4% for men and among the highest in the world.
On the island of Samoa, there are four recognized cultural genders: female, male, fa'afafine, and fa'afatama. Fa'afafine and fa'afatama are fluid gender roles that move between male and female worlds.