Pago Pago

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Pago Pago
Docks in the port of Pago Pago
Docks in the port of Pago Pago
Location in American Samoa
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Basic data
State : United States
Outside area : American Samoa
District : Eastern District
Coordinates : 14 ° 17 ′  S , 170 ° 42 ′  W Coordinates: 14 ° 17 ′  S , 170 ° 42 ′  W
Time zone : Samoa Time Zone ( UTC − 11 )
Residents : 3,656 (as of 2010)
Height : 9 m
FIPS : 60-62500
GNIS ID : 1389119

Pago Pago (pronunciation / ˈpɑŋo ˈpɑŋo / ) is the capital of American Samoa and is located on the island of Tutuila .

The city has an international airport and is the main hub for goods and tourist activities for the entire archipelago . The daily mean temperature is around 20-30 ° C all year round. In Pago Pago is one of the deepest, natural deep water harbors in the South Pacific in a strategically important location with a particularly high level of expansion and is therefore the seat of various internationally active fish processing companies. Most of the city's industry is tourism , entertainment and food production, with an emphasis on processing and packaging of tuna . In 1993, Pago Pago was the fourth largest tuna processing center in the world because it housed the world's largest tuna companies Chicken of the Sea and StarKist , which achieved an estimated $ 445 million in sales from exporting packaged canned tuna to the USA .

Pago Pago is the only more developed, urban center of American Samoa. Various surrounding villages around the port together with Pago Pago form the Greater Pago Pago Metropolitan Area , which in 2000 had around 8,000 inhabitants. The district of Pago Pago itself had 3656 inhabitants according to a census in 2010. The individual districts are Utulei , Fagofogo , Malaloa , Pago Pago , Satala and Atu'u . Fagofogo includes the town center with the seat of the legislature and the American-Samoan police authority Fona , while the executive is housed in Utulei.

The location on Mount Pioa gives Pago Pago the world's highest average annual rainfall in a port region.

Pago Youth is the city's football club.

Web links

 Wikinews: Pago Pago  - in the news
Commons : Pago Pago  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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