Samoa
Polynesia · Apia
Everything Mapfold knows about Samoa, and the 3 answers that pick it out of all 192 countries the game can hide.
Samoa in figures
- Capital
- Apia
- Region
- Polynesia
- Area
- 2,842 km²
- Population
- 219,306
- Density
- 77.2 /km²
- Land neighbours
- 0
- Coast
- No land border
- Highest point
- 1,858 m
- Mean temperature
- 27.6 °C
- Life expectancy
- 71.8 years
- GDP per head
- US$ 5,873
- Urban
- 17.5 %
- Forest
- 57.6 %
Samoa in Mapfold
Every question in the game, and what Samoa answers to it. This is not a fact about Samoa so much as a fact about where it sits among the other 191 — which is the only kind of fact a deduction game runs on.
The shortest way to find Samoa
3 answers are enough to leave Samoa alone in the daylight, starting from all 192. Taking the largest available cut each time, which is what the game scores you against:
- 1
It is in Oceania.
13 STILL IN DAYLIGHT - 2
It lies west of 20°E.
2 STILL IN DAYLIGHT - 3
More than 30% of it is forest.
1 STILL IN DAYLIGHT
What makes Samoa unusual
It is in Oceania.
13 of 192 countriesIt shares no land border with anyone.
37 of 192 countriesMore than 30% of it is forest.
100 of 192 countries
Every Mapfold question, answered
All 35 questions Mapfold can put to the world, ordered by how much hearing this answer would narrow it.
- REGION
It is in Oceania.
13 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
Fewer than a million people live there.
36 of 192 countries - BORDERS
It shares no land border with anyone.
37 of 192 countries - LOCATION
It lies in the southern hemisphere.
38 of 192 countries - BORDERS
It borders at most one country.
54 of 192 countries - SIZE
It is smaller than Belgium.
57 of 192 countries - NATURE
Its highest point is below 2,000 m.
74 of 192 countries - SIZE
It covers less than 100,000 km².
85 of 192 countries - LOCATION
It lies west of 20°E.
95 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
Fewer than ten million people live there.
97 of 192 countries - NATURE
More than 30% of it is forest.
100 of 192 countries - CLIMATE
It averages warmer than 22 °C all year.
104 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
Life expectancy there is below 75.
107 of 192 countries - ECONOMY
GDP per head is below $12,000.
114 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
Fewer than 70% of people live in towns and cities.
119 of 192 countries - LOCATION
It runs wider than it is tall.
126 of 192 countries - BORDERS
It borders fewer than five countries.
132 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
More than 50 people live there per square kilometre.
133 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
It is thinner than 150 people per square kilometre.
136 of 192 countries - REGION
It is not in Africa.
138 of 192 countries - SIZE
It covers less than 500,000 km².
141 of 192 countries - CLIMATE
It averages over 12 °C all year.
143 of 192 countries - REGION
It is not in Asia.
146 of 192 countries - REGION
It is not in Europe.
148 of 192 countries - BORDERS
It touches the sea.
149 of 192 countries - REGION
It is not in the Americas.
157 of 192 countries - LOCATION
Its centre lies south of 45°N.
160 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
Fewer than fifty million people live there.
161 of 192 countries - ECONOMY
GDP per head is below $40,000.
163 of 192 countries - LOCATION
Neither tropic crosses it.
165 of 192 countries - NATURE
Less than 60% of it is forest.
166 of 192 countries - ECONOMY
It does not use the euro.
167 of 192 countries - NATURE
Its highest point is over 500 m.
171 of 192 countries - LOCATION
It spans less than 20° of longitude.
175 of 192 countries - LOCATION
The equator does not cross it.
181 of 192 countries
How Samoa compares
- Bigger than Luxembourg
- Smaller than Cape Verde
- More people than Saint Lucia
- Fewer people than São Tomé and Príncipe
- 166th largest of 192 by area
- 175th by population, of 192
Which countries border Samoa
Samoa shares no land border with anyone.
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