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THE FACTS
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LOCATION: Oceania
GOVERNMENT:   Parliamentary Democracy
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE: Samoan (Polynesian), English
MAJOR RELIGION(S):  Congregationalist 34.8%, Roman Catholic 19.6%, Methodist 15%, Latter-Day Saints 12.7%, Assembly of God 6.6%, Seventh-Day Adventist 3.5%, Worship Centre 1.3%, other Christian 4.5%, other 1.9%, unspecified 0.1%
MAJOR ETHNIC GROUPS: Samoan 92.6%, Euronesians 7% (persons of European and Polynesian blood), Europeans 0.4%.

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