Pago Pago

American Samoa
Pago Pago, American Samoa
Photo: Tavita Togia, National Park Service Public domain source

Pago Pago sits at one of the deepest and most sheltered natural harbors in the South Pacific, a geography that made it strategically valuable enough to shape the political division of Samoa and today drives a tuna-canning industry that ranks among the largest in the world. The capital of American Samoa — and the southernmost U.S. capital, the only one in the Southern Hemisphere — occupies Tutuila island, where Rainmaker Mountain contributes to the highest annual rainfall of any harbor in the world.

  • Population11,500
  • Nearest water0.1 km
  • Nearest mountain0.5 km