Broader Places
Upolu (Samoa) (755)
Place Type inhabited place
Other Place Typestown, national capital, seaport
Latitude -13.800
Longitude -171.750
Seaport connected by steamship service with Australia, New Zealand & United States; has rapidly expanding residential areas, churches & trading companies along the waterfront; suffered a hurricane in 1889 that destroyed US & German naval stations.
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