Information
Name: Independent State of Western Samoa
Type: Polity
Nation: samoa
Start: 1962
End: 1997
Independent State of Western Samoa: All Data
This page is about the data available for this polity, the chronology of the events of the polity is available here.
Samoa gained independence from New Zealand in 1962 as the Independent State of Western Samoa. On 4 July 1997 the government amended the constitution to change the country's name from Western Samoa to Samoa.
