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TransportationAirports World Ranking: 188
4 (2012)
Airports - with paved runways
Total 1
2,438 to 3,047 m 1 (2012) Airports - with unpaved runways
Total 3
Under 914 m 3 (2012) Roadways World Ranking: 171
Total 2,337 km
Paved 332 km Unpaved 2,005 km (2001) Merchant marine World Ranking: 145
Total 2
By type Cargo 1, passenger/cargo 1 Foreign-owned 1 (NZ 1) (2010) Ports and terminals
Apia
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Samoa (Apia):
 
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New Zealand occupied the German protectorate of Western Samoa at the outbreak of World War I in 1914. It continued to administer the islands as a mandate and then as a trust territory until 1962, when the islands became the first Polynesian nation to reestablish independence in the 20th century. The country dropped the "Western" from its name in 1997.