Statistics Dept.
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American Samoa comprises seven tropical islands with a total area of 76 square miles. About seven-eighths of the population of 20,000-odd lives on the main island of Tutuila — 50 square miles, much of which is mountainous and uninhabitable.
Most of the people are pure Poly nesians. They are nationals of, and have free access to, the United States.
Many of them emigrate there. A section of their constitution states: "It shall be the policy of the Govern ment of American Samoa to protect persons of Samoan ancestry against alienation of their lands and the destruction of the Samoan way of life and language, contrary to their best interests."