Flag of Samoa: Country Facts & Flag Quiz
🇼🇸 This is the flag of Samoa, a country in Oceania with its capital at Apia. Below: quick facts, the flag families of the region, and quizzes to practise it.
At a glance
- Country: Samoa
- Flag: 🇼🇸
- Capital: Apia
- Continent: Oceania
- Population: ~222,382
- Area: 2,842 km²
- Currency: WST
- ISO code: WS
Where to place it among Oceania flags
Flags are far easier to learn in groups than one at a time, because most were adopted from a shared tradition rather than designed in isolation. Several design families cut across the world map: the Pan-African colours of red, gold and green; the Pan-Arab palette of red, white, black and green; the off-centre Nordic cross; the plain three-band tricolour; and the Union Jack canton left over from empire.
When you meet an unfamiliar flag, the fastest route is to ask which family it belongs to before trying to memorise it as a picture. That collapses most of the world into a handful of patterns, and turns near-identical pairs into a single distinguishing detail rather than two whole designs.
Samoa sits in Oceania alongside 13 other countries. Learning its flag next to theirs — rather than mixed in with the whole world — is what makes a regional quiz so much more efficient than a global shuffle.
Practice spotting it
The Flag to Country Quiz shows you a flag and asks for the nation, which is recognition. Country to Flag runs the harder direction and is the one that actually sticks.
For this region try the Oceania flags quiz, and when you want the hardest version on the site, Lookalike Flags pairs designs that differ by one detail. See also the country profile for Samoa and the capital of Samoa.
Frequently asked questions
Which country has the 🇼🇸 flag?
🇼🇸 is the flag of Samoa, a country in Oceania whose capital is Apia.
Where is Samoa?
In Oceania, one of 14 countries on that continent. It covers 2,842 square kilometres with a population of about 222,382.
How do I learn flags faster?
Learn the design families before individual flags, work one continent at a time rather than shuffling the whole world, and review only the flags you missed.
More flags to learn
Every country's flag page is listed on the blog, and the Flag to Country Quiz covers them all.
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