Apia is located on which Samoan island?

Apia is located on which Samoan island? Apia is located on Upolu.

The city sits on Upolu’s central north coast, facing the Pacific and occupying a narrow coastal plain. Upolu is Samoa’s second-largest island, but it contains the national capital and the country’s principal concentration of government, business and transport activity.

Samoa’s other major island, Savai‘i, is larger and more sparsely populated. That contrast makes Savai‘i a tempting but incorrect answer in a capital-city question. Tutuila is also a common mix-up, but it belongs to American Samoa, whose capital is Pago Pago rather than Apia.

Apia began as a small village and developed into a modern town during the 1850s. It has been Samoa’s official capital since 1959. The city is framed inland by Mount Vaea, where Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson is buried, while its harbour and coastal setting helped make it an important regional centre.